Sometimes it’s hard to reach beyond what you believe is reachable—sometimes you stay put, dismissing the possible opportunities that lay just beyond your reach. But sometimes, you stay distant because you’re afraid of what lies ahead.
Fear is defined as many things. In reference to the common dictionary definition, it is “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, and so on, whether the threat is real or imagined,” “a specific instance of or propensity for such a feeling,” and “reverential awe.”
Fearing something only makes the concept of fear that much stronger. Fearing danger, fearing pain, fearing evil, fearing of losing control, fearing yourself, fearing something as big as the belief in a god, it’s never necessarily more than a figment of your imagination. Fearing such things only makes you more prone to fear other things.
However, fear enables you to feel. It enables you to experience an emotion so dense, so dimensional. It enables you to respond to situations in an entirely different way than you would without fear present. It tricks your mind, twists it in so many different ways, all to make you ultimately fear the emotion itself that much more. The more you allow fear to enter your life, the more powerful it gets. The more you allow fear to enter your life, the more real it gets. It can easily get in the way and make you become paranoid of the smallest things. You become paranoid to be alone. You become paranoid of your own mind. It overtakes you. And fear, what a small emotion it is, becomes an everyday ordeal.
“Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop” - Unknown
When you allow fear to overtake you, become bigger than faith, you lose sight of the possibilities ahead. You allow negatives to come into your life more than the positives. You can become pessimistic to the point where you find yourself in a rut of depression, which has more facets than even fear.
Faith can act as the opposite of fear. Faith can comfort you in hard times. A belief in something not seen can act as a stronghold. If you believe faith isn’t possible for you to build, stop fearing it. The more you fear, the more you cower away. And having strong faith in something is possible for anyone.
As inevitable as fear may be, you can overcome it. Just as you must work to gain happiness, you must work to dismiss irrational fear. With irrational fear, you can’t reach your full potential. Without irrational fear, you can reach anything. Without irrational fear, you can be faithful. Without irrational fear, you are limitless.
