The Pros And Cons Of Fear

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The way a person talks, the way they move, the choices that they make all are dictated by one single emotion, fear. It causes people to make decisions and makes people act strange. It causes people to hide inside themselves. Fear can cause a person to change their whole life around. It can also change the simplest of things. It can stop you from having amazing experiences. However, fear can cause wonderful things to happen too. Fear is both good and bad. Fear is an emotion that controls a person and the people around them. Fear of spiders is a strange thing. Little creature who, for the most part, don 't hurt anyone but causes many people to run away and scream. A friend of mine fears spiders. Unfortunately her house has many of them. When …show more content…
A person scared of heights may stay clear of planes or take pills to calm their nerves. Some people can calm their fear by forcing themselves not to think about. Or a person may skip out on things like roller coasters. Before getting on a roller coaster a person may fear the height of it and decide to skip out on the ride. Even though most people don’t pay attention to how high they really are during the ride. I have skipped a roller coaster, and I regret my decision. After years of giving into my fears, I finally overcame it and had a blast on the …show more content…
It forces a person to spend hours on end working on their projects. It gives a person drive to succeed. When they get a bad grade; they work harder. Once, on a essay I got a grade much less then I hoped for. After I look at it and saw why I got that grade. I decided to put more hours of my day in to the next essay. I was going to try even harder to get a better grade. However, it can go the opposite. When the person doesn’t get the grade they desire, it tears them down. Cause them give up. Last year in my history class, I kept getting bad grades. I would pour hours into my work. I would put other classes aside. My time and effort would not show in my grades. Finally, I gave up. I no longer focused on that class. My fear hindered my

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