Definition Essay: What Are Fear And Responsibility?

You start to make up scenarios in your head of how there's people in your house. That's what fear can do to you, make you paranoid and over think every little situation.

Do all living things fear something? Those with minds surely have many and various fears, but even the simplest organisms must have fear, for fear is such a powerful feeling. Fear is all around us and is felt in every corner of the earth. Fear is the emotion or feeling that a living creature gets when its physical or mental life is interrupted by a change that causes the creature concern.

Fear has come to permeate the daily life of our generation. We have become very adept at putting on a brave face which is admirable but ill-advised. We refuse to open up or admit our fear, because we don’t want to appear weak to those around us. But every day, all of us go through the same fear. Some days are better than others of course but each and every day we have something that worries us. Something that we may work to hide, and may succeed in hiding from the world and even ourselves for a time. But it is there nonetheless. Each of us deals with stress, pain and fear that is hard for others to understand. We may not even understand it ourselves frankly.

Fear is something that large amounts of people have encountered at least once at some point in their lives. It has been said to have caused a variety of outcomes, many of them being largely negative. Therefore, it is a common human response to react to fear by counteracting it with positivity and/or success. The idea people have of what fear is depends on the person. In the article “How Fear Works”, for example, fear is defined as a “chain reaction in the brain that starts with a stressful stimulus and ends with the release of chemicals” (Layton 1). The website “Psychology Today” defines fear another way, calling it “a vital response to physical and emotional danger” ("Fear Paranoia”). There are several other definitions people have on the

The most traumatic event in my life was when my father passed away in 2005, when I was only seven. At first, I hadn’t understood his death. I knew what death was, and that it was permanent, but I hadn’t accepted the fact that he was gone until long after his death. My mother was a mess, and I was a confused second grader who could do nothing to help her. We began to go to counselors and psychologists, who all made me feel very uncomfortable. All they wanted was to talk about what had happened to my dad, when it was the last thing I wanted to say anything about. I laid in bed crying for a few weeks, knowing it was because of his death, but I felt emptiness rather than sadness or anger. My mother began to take medication for depression, and still continues to do so. At only seven, I believed her sadness was my fault. To be honest, I still feel hurt when I see her taking the depression medication. I know that I had nothing to do with his death, but it granted me with an unwelcoming sense of guilt. I had just been with him the night before his death, and now he had been cremated into a bag of ashes. All of my teachers were very precautious about mentioning him, and I didn’t know how to process all the new attention I had received at school. I was definitely depressed, but I found a way out of my slump. I distracted myself from his death and did all of my school work from my absences as quickly as I could, and

When in a frightening situation, such as being scared for a biology test, or having a burglar break into your house, you react using fear. It is a healthy fear because when someone is scared they know they need to react to the threatening issue. This healthy fear can become unhealthy if it is too strong. When recalling past incidents and injecting them into the current situation, this is an unhealthy fear because it changes how people will behave towards something or someone after being scared once before. Fear always follows right behind the corner and is one step ahead and is different for each individual.

Courage is the thing a person uses to do what a person wants and gives bravery When a person needs it. It’s always there and never leaves a person no matter what, but for some people it is hard to access than for others who have trouble with it. Courage for some could be different for someone else like for someone it could be coming out as gay to their family who is conservative because they think they might disown them, for another it's going to war, and for someone else it’s asking the person they like to the big dance. For many in the black kids in 1954 it was desegregating the schools and many of them were beat up, killed, and got bricks and glass thrown at them. Nowadays for many in the middle east it is escaping their homes and all of their memories behind to escape the war. But to everyone courage is something different and the definition of courage is being true to oneself and doing something to help oneself or others and standing up to others.

Fear is an emotion that plays a part in our everyday life. Fear is an unpleasant, and dreadful emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or trouble.

There have only been a few times in my life that I have genuinely felt fear. One time being when my grandmother had passed away. I felt fear for the family and how things were going to be different. But I also felt fear for the fact that I lost someone that is near and dear to my heart. There have been some other times but most recently this fear has come back. The fear I feel is for my own life. This is because of recent events that had happened down in Orlando. The Pulse Night Club shooting has truly rocked my world and shown me that the world isn’t as beautiful as I thought it was.

Culture of Fear, by Frank Furedi, is a book that looks at how widespread fear impacts Western cultures like the United States and Great Britain. Frank Furedi believed that society tends to panic too much, as we actually enjoy "an unprecedented level of safety." I admit that Frank Furedi's novel is based upon a novel concept, and an interesting one at that. However, Frank Furedi comes off to me as little more than a fear monger and an intellectual elitist. His book, to me, seems redundant more often than not. But sometimes part of college is learning about points of view that you may not agree with, so I tried to maintain that perspective when I read the book.

Facing fear helps my characters grow and develop through gaining courage and learning how to get through tough situations. By standing up to what scares them most they are able to overcome and from their experiences. For example, Taylor has been afraid of tires since she saw Newt Hardbine’s father get flung on top of a sign by an exploding tractor tire. On page 108, Mattie tosses a five-gallon Jerry can at her, explaining “That’s 28 pounds of water. 28 pounds of air is about what you put in a tire. When it hits you, that’s what it feels like.” This makes her feel better, even though it doesn’t completely diminish her fear. She says “live free or bust”, and goes on with her life of working at a tire shop. Also, when Estevan and Esperanza meet

We shouldn't fear, fear. Although most of the time we do, fear isn't always as bad as you think it would be. Fear is something we will always conquer, something we fight and overcome. Fear makes us stronger if you think about it, not only does it lead us to the right way it always makes you think about the future and the outcome of what may happen. When people are in fear they always struggle in seeing from seeing what's right and from what's wrong but somehow they are always lead in making the right decisions.

Fear is what pushed me in life, it created my weaknesses and strengths. People won’t understand, which is okay because I don’t really understand either. What I do understand is the crippling fear that has embedded in my stomach is the major cause for most of my decisions in life. The decision to fall in love with reading, and learning to appreciate education are results from fear. Everyone tends to think that nothing good can come from fear, but it can.

Fear is a feeling created in a response to a perceived danger. Fear can produce pleasure, heighten awareness, be in the form of phobia, a fear of the unknown and an instinctual response to danger.

Fear is the number one obstacle everyone must overcome at some point in their life. When the word fear is brought up I like to think of past situations that I experienced. There are many different methods used to conquer and learn from our fears such and exposure therapy, having a growth mindset, and thinking positive. For example, when I was younger fear was my worst enemy, School was the main reason that caused my fear. My fear of failure was my biggest obstacle growing up so I used that as a method to learn from my fears.