Overcoming Fear Essay

What Is Fear? Yusef Griffin Buffalo State College Abstract What Is Fear? Introduction Fear is one of the basic human emotions. Throughout life, every living person and animal has experienced fear. There is no limit to the number of times one may experience fear, but a person’s lifestyle is a major contributor. For example, a Marine Corps infantryman will experience fear more often than an accountant. Fear has powerful effects on a person’s behavior , physiology, and physical…

The Making of Great Public Speaker On my thirteenth birthday my parents had given me a ticket to see my all time favorite female athlete. She was going to talk about her life and the journey she took to become successful. At thirteen years old, I felt like I had just received a Nobel Prize. On the day of the talk, I sat front row, and I was ready to become inspired and motivated to becoming a successful athlete. Instead, the speaker walked out with a piece of crinkled paper. I was drowned into…

In my life I have had many faces. Iron and steel masks of emotions and anxiety, hung up with heartstrings on the walls of my consciousness. My collection has only grown, fragile faces painted with the fear of vulnerability. Sculpted with the dread of criticism. I protect myself by shielding all the soft humanness that lie inside, by shoving myself into the mold that society puts in front of us. Why would I not cut myself down to fit inside? From a very young age, about fifth grade, I believe…

Death is one of the most evocative concepts known to man, when endured it 's arduous to reconcile the aftermath. But aside from making the hairs on the back of necks stand, death is also agonizing. The death of a loved one or anyone can break a man, and if they are not mentally prepared they could lose themselves or in many cases lose the will to continue to believe in their spiritual or secular ideology. Regardless of what it is death can always find a creep into your beliefs and make you…

It is human nature as men and women to be frightened by change and uncomfortable within a foreign setting. It is difficult to adjust to a situation where the social mores are different from your own. This can lead an individual to lose sight of where one came from and can muddle one’s individuality. In many ways the idiom, “like a fish out of water”, summarizes this mindset. Similar to a disoriented fish gasping for air and searching for water, people who are uncomfortable in their…

you are terrified out of your mind? You know, the sweaty palms, like an elephant is sitting upon your chest, your eyes as big as golf balls, your brain saying, what are you thinking?! That exact feeling of fear is what I used to have until I learned a lesson I will remember for a lifetime. Fear can stand for one of two things; Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. We flashback to the summer of 2011. My family and I decided to begin our first of many cross country family road…

What is your biggest fear? Do you let this phobia affect your everyday life? My biggest fear was performing in front of an audience and I used to let this prevent me from doing what I love, singing. You should not allow performance anxiety be the cause of your discontinued performing days. It is December 15, 2013 and I am anxiously lingering at Ecoff Elementary School. Tonight will be the first time I perform on stage in front of hundreds of people; In fact, it is my first time performing in…

When I was in sixth grade, trying something new wasn’t thrilling or exciting. I was always too scared and and nervous to try out many new things that I have never seen or do. The fear crept into my every cell, a ghostly shadow haunting every one of my thoughts, and rattling through my frozen, unbeatable heart. This story is one of my memorable experiences in my life. In sixth grade, I went to an elementary school called San Marino. It was a wonderful school and I was one of the smartest students…

I have always been attracted to scary movies, like the bees are attracted to pollen and nectar in flowers. I do not know where this attraction for these indescribable and sometimes unbelievable movies come from, but I am sure that I like them. I have been watching scary movies since I was a child, not as often as now when a new scary movie comes out and everybody wants to watch it but somehow like that, I know you might wonder why every time a new scary movie comes out in theater almost…

Mini Essay 1: Was the argument that young men are drawn to high risk activities presented well throughout Into the Wild? Yes, the book follows a young man, Chris McCandless, who expresses an unhealthy amount of monomania for the wild, and many believed that he was mentally ill. However the author, Jon Krakauer, believed otherwise. There were many young men before McCandless’s time that expressed this same obsession. Although, there were many young men that shared this enthusiasm…