irrational fears
Once in a while I've actually thought about whether I am afraid of death or not. It comes up for a lot of people and some I guess have a serious fear in regards to their mortality. For some reason, when I think about it, I don't feel afraid about death. I don't willingly look for it or anything. I just don't think it would be terrible, leave things behind, move on.
But I realized that really its just a notion that I'm comfortable with for the wrong reasons, or that its straight up false. I'm saying I'm not afraid of death, but then I have all these other fears that I live with all the time that actually hold me back from certain aspects of life. I still have a slight fear of going up to random strangers and trying to meet them, maybe it's a fear of awkward situations or the anxiety that comes from stuff like that. I've had fears of swimming in very deep waters, and phobias about some ocean stuff. To some degree I even consider hesitation a kind of fear.
So it goes to logic that if I wasn't afraid of death, why should I be afraid of doing things that would actually add things to my life with only slight risk on my part? Should I still be in fear of risky things? I guess the real answer is I haven't really taken a deep internal look into seeing my own mortality.
I have done some awesome, crazy, and life-altering things. I think it's about time I started to internalize them a little more.
But I realized that really its just a notion that I'm comfortable with for the wrong reasons, or that its straight up false. I'm saying I'm not afraid of death, but then I have all these other fears that I live with all the time that actually hold me back from certain aspects of life. I still have a slight fear of going up to random strangers and trying to meet them, maybe it's a fear of awkward situations or the anxiety that comes from stuff like that. I've had fears of swimming in very deep waters, and phobias about some ocean stuff. To some degree I even consider hesitation a kind of fear.
So it goes to logic that if I wasn't afraid of death, why should I be afraid of doing things that would actually add things to my life with only slight risk on my part? Should I still be in fear of risky things? I guess the real answer is I haven't really taken a deep internal look into seeing my own mortality.
I have done some awesome, crazy, and life-altering things. I think it's about time I started to internalize them a little more.