The necessity of fear

         Something I learned this week in me classes was the breaking down and understanding of fear. Upon this lesson I learned that fear has its purposes and is very useful. Typically we think of something scary like giant spiders and sharks when we think of fear, which is good. Fear is a survival tactic that has been installed into our survival DNA hard drive since the beginning of time. This allows us to protect ourselves preemptively without having us experience these deadly instances first hand. Many fears are simply derived from something that we simply dont understand fully. For instance, the fear of the dark isnt simply the fear of the absence of light, it is what we think might be lurking in the dark that scares us. If we simply shine a light in that dark space then are fears dissolve because we now know that there is nothing in the dark to harm us. I like this quote from JFK on darkness.

 "We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future."

 I think instead of cursing the darkness we need to appreciate what it allows us to do and grow from that.

      With this in mind fear is just a program we use to be safe and to grow, but with any program or system that has been practiced, fear is able to be misunderstood and can be abused. This can prevent people from doing what they really want to do. We cannot allow fear to prevent us from doing what it is that we dream about all day. So how are we able to defeat this abuse of our most primal instincts? Just like with the darkness, we must shine our light or simply understand what it is about that fear that makes us so afraid. When we do this we will understand that our misconceptions that our mind has come to are simply irrational and that we are then able to understand how to achieve our goals.