The Perception Of Fear

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Our life is very funny. We are surrounded by many people who are full of dreams. They might want to be the greatest person on Earth, be the man who breaks the Guinness book record, be the most famous and handsome guy, be a Hollywood actor, and other impossible dreams. Yes, it is only a dream. Then when they wake up everyday, we do not know that they feel like they are an ordinary person. Not more, not less. Who are they? They might be the person who flew and study abroad in America very bravely without a comprehensive English, struggle to be accepted by everybody, the most foolish person in class, who are often lonely, has a big dream but no courage, or might be the guy who just sits quitely. They are the people who we often consider as nothing. …show more content…
The point is if we are afraid, we do not grow up. It is not supposed to be like this. Basically, being afraid is a feeling that is filled with apprehension. There are a lot of ways to treat this feeling of fear. The quickest is using medicine or chemicals. The good news is that we can control our feeling, include fear. There are a bunch of ways to let us free. One of them is similiar with the Medicating Women’s Feelings article by Julie Holland from The New York Times. They said “The most common antidepressants, which are also used to treat anxiety, are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (S.S.R.I.s) that enhance serotonin transmission. S.S.R.I.s keep things “all good.” But too good is no good. More serotonin might lengthen your short fuse and quell your fears, but it also helps to numb you, physically and emotionally” (The New York Times, Medicating Women’s Feelings). Medical controls could either be healing us or making us worse. Serotonin addition in our body would give us more spirit to live. We would not feel afraid anymore. The bad news, when we add more serotonin, our natural serotonin will not work as usual. We should ask ourself first, why do we need to add serotonin while we have the natural one? It’s a ridiculuos attitude when we do it. Feelings are given by God, why do we stop them? It’s better if we let them go. If we’re afraid, just feel it. Overall, we could control fear using medicine but it’s not good for our …show more content…
There is no shortcut to do it. It will feels like looking for a needle in a haystack, but we could use a magnet to attract it. It’s very simple, we need to use mentally and physchological mind. It remind us to a quote from shift #6, Ali Liebegott,”Once an accountant told me: If we’re crazy, then we have to be crazy”. (Ali LIebegott, The Best American Non Required Reading, Shift #6, page 197) They said about feeling crazy. However, it similiar to our topic, afraid. They advice us, when we are afraid, then we have to be afraid. Not literally afraid, but we have to be afraid of being afraid because there is no use in being afraid. We could say “I’m possible” instead of “impossible” to ourself. It will increases our confidence and drive out our fear. Even though, it works slowly, we know that it’s better than using

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