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Why You Should Fear, Fear Itself
Stress, fear, and anxiety plague our mental space. It’s as though a mob has taken over a city and held our brain hostage.
Fear is difficult to escape.
With one fleeting flick of your thumb on Twitter, you’ll get a swarm of bad news in less than a second.
Turn on the news, and you’ll become depressed for a month.
Combine that with us being complicated people, and you have a recipe for internal chaos.
We all have competing wants, desires, and fears. Fear is at an all-time high. You’ll see thousands of people locked down, awaiting the virus plague.
They don’t want video call in case the virus transmits through the screen — or WiFi.
These people take fear to another level. They’re illogical and bring everything to a worst-case scenario.
Then, you have the irrational population. They have real concerns but dwell on it every day. It consumes a portion of their life.
Why is fear bad?
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. -Seneca”
