Fear

Fear - the disdain of unknown. Believe it or not that is the basis of fear. People fear the unknown. It's a simple point for example say that I was going to jump off of a plane without a parachute; your natural response is fear for my life. I then run and jump out and land on the pavement 5 feet later. You feared because you didn't know all of the variables in the problem, at which point you feared because of the unknown. If you had known all of the variables would you have said go ahead jump you will be alright. I said all of that to say this; There are always going to be unknowns, however we can never eliminate all of the variables. We may eliminate a couple but never all. So fear is a possitive and negative emotion. Possitive in the fact that it may help you stay out of a dangerous situation, but neagive in the fact that is may hold you back from your true potential. Fear is the reason that everyone conforms to everyone else's ways. We need to break away from fear to a certain extent. I guess the best way to put it is we should take fear with wisdom. If wisdom tells us we're going to be alright but fear says there is always a chance you'll crash and burn listen to both and make up your mind. Fear used to hold me back from even talking to other people and really being me. I then decided to pay fear no mind at all and just go for it and I got in a lot of trouble this way. Don't always trust fear.