Emotions are what makes life life. They add that spark and color into an otherwise neutral world.
But there's one emotion that you wish you can go without:
It holds you back from doing things,
it keeps you from your dreams,
it makes you give nothing a chance,
and it's making me type this right now.
Without fear, you could do so many things. Because out of fear, you won't do most of them.
Ignorance is a bliss
That one phrase says it all. But at the same time, you don't want to live in that little bubble of ignorance.
You want to know things as they are,
You want to wonder why things are,
You want to discover what's out there,
but you can't just mow over your fear.
It's just, retarded.
My chorus teacher always says "We are not afraid of incompetence, we are afraid that we are powerful beyond measure" Or something along those lines.
And sometimes, I agree with him.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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That's true, but another good point to make is how fear can actually help us accomplish things. For when we overcome our fears, great things can happen for both others and ourselves.
ReplyDeleteSkydiving would be boring without fear, for example. Love would be a bland emotion without the fear it brings. The fear of getting hurt.
(: I remember when I was a child, adults would always use that phrase "Ignorance is a bliss." And I grew so angry at them because I didn't want to be ignorant. I thought I wasn't. And here I am today, with so much more knowledge of the world and the people in it, and I think I'm finally starting to realize the validity of that statement. Haha, it makes me realize how far I've come.
Haha Jeri.. "how far I've come"... sorry that just made me smile.
ReplyDelete"Ignorance is bliss". That's completely true, but things are happening whether you know about it or not... like the polar bears are drowning, whether you know about it or not... and at least when you know you have a chance of helping them. And that would lead to more happiness than the initial happiness of not knowing about them.
But in the end, it's all in the mind - it's all how you choose to see things. You can be happy whether you know the truth or not. If you choose to be happy, you are happy. It's that simple.
And there's also an up and down to everything. Without the negative emotion of fear, there would be no reciprocal positive emotion.
And fear keeps us in check, too. If no one feared breaking the law and going to jail we'd all be shooting each other. If no one was afraid of failing math we'd all be high school dropouts. Every cloud has a silver lining! :D