Nightmare – Daily Writing Prompt
n. An unpleasant or frightening dream or experience; something difficult to deal with
-Nightmares are strange things, yet very insightful. They show us what we fear the most, either overtly or subconsciously. Most people would prefer not to have them as they typically put us in frightening situation we cannot control.
-Nobody likes to be afraid, although some andrenaline seekers might seek out scary things to chase the rush.
Fear: n. an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat
-there’s a quote from that Will Smith movie After Earth that goes:
“The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.”
-I absolutely love that. We constantly hold ourselves back everyday because of 3 biggest fears in particular:
- Fear of failure
- Fear of rejection
- Fear of judgement
I think if we didn’t care about failure, we would try more things, learn faster, and achieve more.
Its funny how kids are so resilient to the word “no,” and will keep doing something. But by the time we become adults, we’ve become conditioned to avoid rejection and thus never take risks and achieve more than we think we’re capable of.
If we didn’t care about what others thought, I think we’d be much happier. Fear of being judge makes people so eager to please people they don’t like, and for what? Nothing.
So what’s the cure to fear?
Action.
Action cures fear because once we start doing the thing we fear, the fear lessons. There may or may not have been danger, but the illusion of fear slips away the more action we take.
So go out and face your fear with action.
Marlo Yonocruz 