Fear

I had a conversation today with a friend about why she had a fear that she has. Our conversation prompted me to think further about the nature of fear.

It is my assertion that for everything, there is a cause, including fears. Some people say that some fears are irrational, and I actually agree. This, however, does not mean they do not have a cause. For example, I have an irrational fear of water. While it is irrational, there is a cause: I have had several traumatic experiences with water and my OCD makes me feel disgusted when I am wet.

I think that if a person really looks inside himself, he can reason out all his feelings. Just recently, I had a conversation with one of my classmates. I kept getting this really uneasy feeling about him, but I didn't know why. Usually, a person at this point would just decide that he dislikes the person and stop thinking past there. However, that is the road to mental stagnation - as some famous person said, "A life unexamined is a life not worth living.". So I spent the 40 minutes it takes me to get back from class thinking about why I felt uneasy about this person and why I didn't like him. I ended up thinking of about a dozen things, but I still had a nagging feeling that I was missing something. Finally, when I was almost home, I figured out that he reminded me of the kind of person I don't want to be but have the tendency to be. With that realization, I was able to remove my feeling of unease and decide on what to do about this person that I see every week.

The point in this blog post is that we as human beings are able to reason out our emotions and thus come to a greater understanding of ourselves and better prepare for our futures. Without understanding one's emotions, we are little better than monkeys and are a waste of intelligence.