Fear

Fear is the hidden adrenaline that drives a human to the brink of insanity. The storm of fear rocks you back and forwards until you cannot cope with any more and you finally lay down in a hole and die.

It is also what lets us live. When we smell fear from our own bodies it can drive us to defeat it. How people do it is different.

Some, defeat it by completing the task which is scaring them.

Others, run away, hide. We call these people cowerds.

At the moment, my fear is a tingling sensationg I get in my stomach every time the jump goes higher. I feel it down my spine and through my stomach. It drives me to get over the jump.

I am one of the people who want to complete the task to defeat the fear. I defeat it by getting over the height and then realising that I can jump that.

For others, their fear might be losing their job, dying from cancer, going poorly in the HSC, death (full stop).

All of the above are reasons to fear, do not judge some one because they are afraid of something that you find simple.

A small boy tells his mother, 'May I sleep with you, because I am afraid of the dark?' His mother does not think him weak because of this, she thinks him sweet.

A grown man tells his mother, 'May I stay with you because I am afraid of sleeping alone in my house?' His mother thinks he is weak.

May I ask you how the little boy is any different to the grown man? They are still the same person, just grown up.

People are afraid of what's different, It's a fact of life. A mentally disturbed person is afraid of the "normal" people, the "normal" people are afraid of the mentally disturbed. We're all just running in circles.

We think of fear as a bad thing, something that we don't need. But don't you think sometimes it's what drives people to change?

If I told you right now that you were dumb. And you belived me. You would be scared of being dumb. You would then try being smarter, so that if I told you again, you could happily and truth fully say , 'I am not dumb.'

Yes, that is what fear is; the driving force.