People ask the question of “what would you do if you had nothing to fear?” I do not believe I have ever been able to answer that question. I wonder if fear in its most simple form can be defined in many ways and is just one of the many things in this life that we have associated with disdain. I believe that more choices than we like to admit have been driven by fear. It is either a fear that makes us brave or takes away our doubt and makes us feel like we have no choice. Then fear might not be as bad as we make it out to be.
So why is it possible that the greatest weakness of man is fear in all its forms? Fear of being lost in the adventure that we call life, or maybe it is just the most straightforward concept of not knowing. I think everything can be held hostage by a fear of sorts, from the tears that flow when we feel anger to the rage that makes everything spin in moments the world is not going our way. As a society, we have possibly created an association of powerlessness to fear, or maybe we have decided that in fear, we find all the sounds that make our worlds stop, even but for a moment. Why is it that when we think of fear, we think of the weakest and smallest moments we had faced and forget that we felt an eternal sense of fear before we made the biggest jumps? Why do we keep forgetting that fear has made us pick ourselves up more times than we like to imagine?
Perhaps fear is not our greatest weakness but our most prominent strengths if we use it to find the parts of ourselves that we are too scared to let out. I think fear works in the same way knowledge does, and we need to make use of it to make our lives better. What if fear is one of the many twisted tools that life has given us, hoping that we choose to see it as a glass half full concept. So maybe the question we should ask ourselves is, what would you do if you made fear your friend and your greatest asset?
