We are afraid of the wrong things

I’ll never forget the lesson I learnt not too long ago about the unknown. I’m talking about when you sit in a room and an unknown figure appears in the door way. We will immediately turn our attention to that because we don’t know what it is and we also want to give ourselves piece of mind.

The greatest thing we can fear is not only fear itself, but ourselves. As humans we have been given the power to choose which makes us different from any other thing that was created. It’s us who chooses from the smallest thing like being afraid of the dark to hurting a person we care deeply about. It’s ourselves that have to face the consequences of those decisions and it’s ourselves that we should be afraid of not the spider in the corner of our room or the man that looks at us suspiciously as we pass by.

As a child it was our innocence that made us curious and less afraid of things but it might also have been the comfort that we could run to our parents for safety when we were afraid of the dark. As we grow up we expand our knowledge and our experiences have influence into what we are afraid of. Maybe it’s because we are not brave enough to face up to our fears and we’d much rather be seen as a coward.

We all have our fears, its part of who we are but secretly we know we are afraid of the wrong things and we should much rather fear ourselves than anything else.