Personal Narrative: How Fear That Changed My Life

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Fear is incapacitating, it holds you back and holds you down. As you grow older, you see more of the world. You see it thought the news, people and books. As you grow older and see more, the more you know what to fear. When you come out of childhood you learn that the monsters you feared under the bed may not be there, but you learn that they lurk in the streets and the halls of your life. As time passes you discover not only to fear monsters but also emotion, failure, change and loss. How do people learn to cope? How, after finding out that the earth is so terrifying, do people continue on? How can people survive or have the ability to know how to survive and thrive.
When I was a child, I feared any modification to the life I was comfortable with . I was so set in the life I was comfortable with that I was a very picky eater and even refused to introduce myself to new people and friends. In order to pass the time I read the notorious Goosebumps series. I loved them more than anything, so much so that I owned every
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But you can use the same literacy in your relationships with your boss and coworkers, with your friends and family. Sizing up their moods before asking for something or checking on them. This literacy is a type of listening, one may say they 're fine but you have to watch their eyes, mouth and body to find the real thing they need to say but conventions make them hold back. In public you have to see and understand what strangers are dangerous, what they desire and expect from you .
The lack of literacy in these fields could always seem dangerous, the mistake made could cost you a tip or even so much as much as your job. The lack of literacy of your surroundings could get your drink drugged or hurt. this literacy though it helps and protects you it can also force you to see more than you wish and force you to see a dirty reality that you live in, one permeated by fears and people’s hidden

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