The Evolution Of Fear

Flickering beats of your heart sends shivers all down your spine. A mind young as yours doesn’t feel the longing fear of your family or your career, but you do have the basic instincts that have lived with human nature for centuries. Feeling threatened, the ancient instincts run through your child self and make you fear for your life. Your “monster under the bed” has sparked these fears for your life, but that basic natural fear evolves over time with maturity and knowledge of the modern world you live in. Soon you are afraid of bad grades, then of not getting a job after college, then of your own child’s future. This evolution ultimately predicts you handle of future fears, so the way you react to your fears as an adult is a result of the way you handled fears as a child. …show more content…
As a small child, I was afraid of very few things. My most impactful fear was fear of the dark. Not the dark itself, I was fine in the dark, but I was afraid of what might be in the dark. Harmless shadows would frighten the life out of me. The idea of “mysterious creatures” in my room didn’t let me sleep. Depending on the person, and the fear, it might take a different effect on them. “Mysterious creatures” in the dark wouldn’t let me get a drop of sleep. Sometimes I would scare myself to sleep, my mind amplifying the fictional threat by a million. I was scared that the creatures would either take me while I was asleep, or haunt me in my dreams. I shook with fear whenever I had to go somewhere dark alone. My unfinished basement was a big room of terror unless someone was with me. You might think this seems excessive for