Fear

[Flash]

What are your deepest fears? Have you ever thought of what it is that frightens you the most? There are always the basic fears carried over from childhood. I know forty year old men still sleeping with a night light. The fears we experienced as children were not based on rational thought. Our imaginations fueled the substance of all our fears. We never thought what would happen if the boogey man caught us. We could just pull the covers over our heads and we were safe.If we can't see it , it can't see us. As children our fears and the way of handling our fears was simple. Eventually our childhood fears no longer became fears and we grew up. As adults our fears became more personal. We became afraid of our feelings and being hurt. The Boogey men of our childhood became our insecurities and remembrances of what has happened to us in our lives. Our imagination still played a part in our fears but our imagination was aided by our low self esteem and general insecurities. We feared repeating what had hurt us before. And even if we got through the hurt, our imagination magnified the pain so much that we could not risk being hurt again. This magnified fear prohibits our ability to love and trust. We can’t pull the covers over our head to hide from this adult Boogey man. Instead we play games and deny ourselves a chance to love and be loved. As children we out grew our fears. Why can’t we as adults do the same? We all have been hurt. But should the memory of that hurt become a boogey man that keeps us hiding our heads under the covers? Fear should not rule our lives and decisions. We should as adults realize that we have nothing to fear but fear itself. We should not let our imaginations magnify our fears boundless fears.