Random night scribbles.

What do you do when there’s something so strong that you desire that it devours the mind? When you’re stuck feeling helpless and unable to just let it out. It’s written on the walls, but never said aloud. How do you go about living around that though? I say this through a simple idea, love. How do you manage to love someone yet not have the ability to just let it out? It seems like such a simple thing, you say how you feel and either get rejected or get the answer you hoped so much for.

This never seems to be the case for the obsession. Sitting here looking through every possible equation, every possible way things could go wrong, what backlash could incur. It’s just the matter of being able to tell the mind that things will be find and the ability to find the courage to let it all out. Even people who always seem so composed go through this trial, it’s just that they somehow find a way to minimal all the middle parts and look only a point A and point B. How is it possible to push all the questions aside and just go for what they want? Life is never that simple.

There are so many different things that could occur from one single action, how are we to narrow down the outcomes to creating something that would give us hope? As if there is a process of elimination telling us that there are some outcomes that could never be. We stand there wishing we could say what it is we want, yet there we are stuck pondering how it would affect our future, how it would affect friendships, and how it would affect us as we stand there waiting for the answer.

Courage seems to be the only thing that could truly bring all these problems to rest, yet if we are stuck asking these questions, do we have the courage to just let them all go away? Courage is this great thing that we are always told, as if it is the cure all. Yet some times, here we are cowards simply wishing, trying to find a way to just let the world know exactly how we feel for one another.

Lies we tell yet are unneeded.

Why is it that we rush through life refusing to take a look around? We spend so much time trying to create a perfect life of happiness that we forget to slow down and actually enjoy our lives. Everyone tries so hard to make a life they will be happy with that they never stop and realize they have that happiness. What would it take for the world to see that happiness is something that has always been there?

People spend their lives wishing for a happiness, setting goals and saying, “Once I achieve this, I will be happy.” Yet, after they achieve their goals they simply set new goals, new things that they need to feel happiness. We just go on and on pretending that everything will be fine, that we will one day find what it is that we want. We just need to keep working and moving forward and eventually we will hit that feeling of bliss. Keep on working, set new goals and eventually everything will fall into place.

Moving forward seems to be the only goal, we never stop to think that maybe the happiness we seek isn’t something that is far away. Soon we forget what it is we love because we spend so much of our time suffering to find the end. Those things that should make us happy just seem to serve as obstacles we must overcome to achieve the artificial goals we have set out to complete. We always need to be moving and creating a greater world for ourselves. We need to continuously be moving to a new goal, something greater, something that will make us more successful. We spend so much time trying to make it to the top we never feel content with where we are. I’m not saying don’t dream to be something great, just don’t work for something because you feel it’s an obligation to happiness, do it because you truly want it.

Money has become the reason we try so hard and create these goals that seem important. Sure, there is an obvious need of money, but we make it the most important factor to life that we forget that there is so much more to life than just how much money we can make. We think we need to buy more than the person next to us, have nicer things than our neighbors. Money is just a simple thing we made out to being something bigger than it is without realizing that happiness could be obtained with very little money. Money, in a way, creates unhappy people due to always thinking they need more in order to achieve a false happiness.

We spend so much time convincing ourselves of joy, we forget that there is true joy all around us.For all we know, how had passed true happiness ages ago, but we chose to ignore it because we wanted something better. As if there were a place that would make true happiness look like a sad joke. It’s the denial that leads to searching and it’s the searching that eventually leads to nothing. We never stop to realize we can be happy without having to go on a long journey. We have all these things around us that create a greater happiness, but we convince ourselves that it is not enough.

Some times we just need to be reminded that happiness can be found in the simplest of things. We can stop and appreciate little things such as a friendly gesture from a stranger. It’s all those little things in life that create a happiness that can’t be bought. It doesn’t take goals and trying to always be better to be happy, all it takes is the appreciation of what you have. Money is nothing more than a means of survival, but it is friends and kind gestures that create a smile that can’t be found any other way. Happiness is simply an optimistic view on life that can be brought on by appreciating everything we have.

Deniable truth.

After being persuaded by someone I can’t seem to say no to, I found myself watching the documentary Earthlings. If you’re unsure what this documentary is about, it is simply about the animal cruelty in places we choose not to think of, such as our food, pounds and everyday items. Instead of the message intended through the documentary I found myself drawn to the idea of how human’s find a need to feel superior over those helpless animals. To me, the documentary seemed to be more of how we feel the need to continuously feel like we are somehow greater than any other creature on Earth. This is also not saying that we stop at the need to feel superior over animals, most human’s also find the need to feel superior around other human beings.

There are many parts of the documentary where people are yelling and cursing at these animals as they are hitting them. Most people would view this and think of the poor animals, yet I sat there thinking of how cruel humans could be. I thought of how they were only doing this because they knew there would be no consequence which made them feel powerful. These people would not have done this if they were uncertain of their safety because they feel their lives are too valuable to risk. So what made it right for them to do it to those creatures that had done nothing wrong?

How do we expect to show compassion to those poor animals when we can’t even find compassion for our own kind? Although as time has progressed the cruelty to humans has seemed to decrease, it is still practiced in ways we don’t realize. It may not be to the degree of physically abuse but we, sometimes unknowingly, verbally abuse humans.The most obvious way we are verbally abusive are through racism. The degree of racism a person shows may vary, but we all do have a bit of racism in us. We may some times say racist comments “jokingly” but they are just as abusive and meaning what was said.

At an extreme level, we also have people beating one another. Whether it is countries fighting one another or spousal beating, it all comes down to showing power. By physical abuse we are trying to show that we are stronger than the other and will not back down. Violence is used mainly because we want to feel that we are not weak and feel the need to prove it. Even when people are not fighting in wars, we are sitting on the side lines encouraging it because we feel like we need to prove that we will not be pushed and feel we are doing it for the better.

We can think we are better than those types of people, yet when we see something such as someone begging for money, we assume that they have wasted their lives with drugs and alcohol and refuse to help them. Instead of feeling that it would be right to help someone who is in need, we simply judge their situation and refuse to help them because we choose to believe the worst. No matter how small it may seem, every little action we do that seems unjust is just showing that humans truly are cruel creatures that show no sympathy.

Thinking of this also raised a questions I would never have thought to ask myself. Because I didn’t feel the want to stop eating meat after watching this documentary, I wondered if I were any better than these people yelling and hurting those poor animals. Sure, I’m not going out there and doing it, but I’m eating the outcome of all those horrible things. Am I enforcing that type of treatment by continuously funding the companies that allow this type of treatment to continue? So the question that I am now left with is, am just another human showing we are all cruel in some way?

Obstacles that define us.

What happens if we missed our chance? What are we left to wonder if we were never able to go out and try? It seems like such a simple act to just go and do something, but there always seem to be obstacles standing in the way. There are all the questions that make us hesitate to just go out and try. We always just sit there thinking that if only we took that chance, everything would be perfect.

The journey we go through comes with various amounts of crossroads, it’s simple to think of how it would be if we went down one path, but our minds look down that path and just see other crossroads that would have to be dealt with. It makes us feel as if life would just be simple if we had one road to deal with and no obstacles in our way. Yet, how would life be worth living if it were just one straight line? Life gives us choices that help alter our lives through the choices made. These obstacles help define who we are, it’s a simple idea of creating who we are through our ability to choose paths.

For some people dealing with choices comes easily, they see it simply and just deal with them as they arise. It helps them see things in a more reasonable sense because they are letting the choice work itself out until something new may come out. They are able to just figure which choice would be better for them right there and then. They make these issues seem simple, as if it shouldn’t be hard to choose between the choices. The people who live life once choice at a time are able to just let things be and don’t worry too much about what the future will hold from that choice.

For others choices become a hard riddle that seems to lead to too many conclusions. These are the ones that sit there analyzing every outcome from any action they would take. It becomes a hard choice because they see where that road would lead and what they would have to face in the future. It’s not that they aren’t living their lives right then and there, but it’s that they are living their lives in a way where they are also concerned of what the future could hold from their choices. They stand there staring down every path and seeing what would become of them if they were to make what could possibly be a minor decision.

Although those paths people choose help define who they are, the way they go about finding their answers also shows who they are. When you watch someone through the process of the obstacle you tell yourself they are either quick to make decisions or they are cautious with their actions. Their process defines them more than the choice themselves because isn’t just a one time occurrence but shows how they go through all choices. This may not be how they make all their choices, but it shows how they would make many of the similar decisions.

This idea leads to the questions that I started out with. These aren’t questions that only one of the two types would be asking, but it is a question that everyone eventually asks. These questions are due to simple things we feel we could have done to possibly help better our lives. We ask these questions because are curious. Even if we feel we made the best choice, we always look back and wonder what would have changed if we had gone down a different path. We always ask the what ifs. What if I had been brave? What if I had just said what I wanted to say? It’s these questions that help us later in life. These are the questions that make us think of how we can go about a situation in a way we feel would be better, because these questions are the ones that we always encounter when we are left at another split. What if life were just one straight line, would we still feel satisfaction out of living? Are these choices the things that help make life worth living? Even if we feel we made the wrong decision, it was our own will to make the choice. When we wish we were brave enough to just speak words, it was our free will to not say them. In that sense, shouldn’t we still be grateful for our mistakes since they were ours to make and nobody else?

Justifiable obsession.

Have you ever had a part of you believe that if you can get a specific part of your life correct, that everything would work out? As if this one thing would help put everything where it should be. This something seems to be the key that would make everything seem perfect. Who’s to say that you’re right or wrong in believing that everything would be perfect after you found a solution to that one hiccup in your life? It’s not like they can tell you that thing would be the same in the end, because they don’t know what it is that consumes you and they don’t know the significance it plays for you.

The thing that you believe has the power to create simplicity could be something you have strong faith in. It could be that you believe that by solving this great problem, all will be right. You may have faith that this is the solve everything type of solution. Yet, the more likely issue that it is simply because this problem has consumed your mind. It may be an issue that you believe will make everything seem easier simply because it would no longer be stuck in obsession. This problem could be an addiction that consumed your mind into being unable to think of anything else, therefore you feel like everything would just be easier if it were possible to resolve the issue.

It’s impossible to avoid, we will all someday create this riddle that will consume our minds. Once that one idea has been seeded into our minds, it’s hard to stop thinking about whatever it is that we believe is so important. The fact that we persuade ourselves that it is important is what makes it so hard to get rid of. Even though we tell ourselves that it isn’t important, deep down we believe it is, so the problem refuses to disappear. Some times our minds refuse to let us rest because it wants to find a solution so it can have it’s rest from thinking about it. The key seems to be finding a way to solve it, yet some times it’s hard do what it takes.

Most of the time we know what it would take to rid our minds of the obsession, but we don’t have the courage to do what it is that needs to be done. The reason we obsess over it is because it’s something we desire but fear to reach out for. You tell yourself that if you can just get the courage, if you can just suck it up and go for it, everything would be perfect. Yet no matter how many times you tell yourself that, it seems so damn hard to do it. No matter how courageous someone may be, there is always one thing that they seem to lack courage in.

The reason we seem to lack courage isn’t because we fear failure, it’s because we fear the unknown of it. It would be easy for us if we knew exactly what the outcome would be if we went out and tried, but it’s the fear that it could go any way that keeps us from trying. Our minds will play back different scenarios of what could occur, and it’s the fear that we’re not sure which of those scenarios would occur that keeps us from trying to do whatever it is we want. If we knew the answer to the question, we could simply move on if we didn’t like what it was. It’s that slight optimism that something could go right that keeps our minds wanting to find the outcome.

It’s strange to believe it, but it is the optimism that keeps us guessing. Sure, it is the pessimism that keeps us willingly trying, but it is the optimism that keeps us hoping. If we knew that we would fail, we would simply give up and go on with our lives. It’s the idea of, what if things were to work out, that makes us wish we were able to succeed. It’s the optimism that keeps us in the mysterious unknown, it’s the part of us that wishes we would go forth with our plans. It’s the reason we stay up at nights wishing we could just throw it out into the world and hope we get the results we want.

No matter how stupid the idea in our minds may seem, it is important to us. We’re consumed by it because it is something that seems worth trying for. Mine is the simple idea of love, but when it’s said it sounds silly, but it’s the idea that maybe if I just let it known that it is felt that maybe I’ll get the answer I wish for from the girl I wish it from. Yet, it’s never that simple, but that’s just due to fear. If it’s something we feel is important, we don’t want to throw it out there with all our hope only to have it thrown back in our faces. Our mind found it important for a reason, and the last thing we want is to be laughed at for it.

Sure we can as the world and get the answer to just go out there and try, but they don’t know what it feels like. Everyone handles their problems differently, so they don’t understand how it feels for you to be stuck where you are. We just have to keep moving forth and hope that one day we’ll get the answer we want. We have to hope that this obsession will soon find a solution, and we pray that it’s the one that we want. Just hope for the yes and hope it’s from whomever you wish would give that answer.

Strong belief.

Passion is the greatest drive because it shows we believe in what we are striving for. It is better to be passionate about something than to be motivated to do something. When you are motivating yourself, you are trying to convince yourself that it is worth the effort. When you are passionate about something you believe that you are doing something for a purpose. The one thing we should fear is going up against someone who is passionate about what they are doing.

As long as a person believes in what they are doing, they can have a passion for it. This isn’t the passion people simply speak of when they feel like being dramatic. This is a true passion that drives people to continue doing what they feel is right. It is easy to say you are passionate about something, but it is difficult to have that statement be true. It is not saying we’re lying by saying it, it’s just that because we say it doesn’t mean it is always true. To have true passion we can’t have any doubt. We have to truly believe that we are doing something worth doing.

It would be hard to go up against someone who shows passion because you cannot sway them to believe what you believe. Whether they are right or not, to them they are doing the correct thing. We are strongest when we fight for what we believe in, and are most naive when we simply fight in order to fight. Passion is a great motivation because we have a purpose to go forward and are less likely to back down just because someone tells us we’re wrong. This will to go forward is what makes someone who is passionate close to untouchable.

People believe that passion is simply something for love, but the truth is we can have a passion for anything. Passion is simply showing that we strongly believe in something and are willing to do our best to achieve said goal. With strong belief, we can continue going on when no one believes we can. Without having passion there are many things we would never have in this world. We would never go beyond expectations and create something great because we would just follow what people say and continue on a straight path.

A lot of people put passion and desire together, but they are not completely the same thing. Sure they can coincide with one another, but they are not one in the same. Desire is a want of something while passion is the need of it. If you are passionate about something, you can have the desire for it. Yet, just because you desire something doesn’t mean you have passion for it. Desiring something can be simple because we don’t need to believe in it, but just simply lust for it. Desire is nothing more than a temporary dream as passion is something that can last forever.

Whether we realize it or not, there is something we are all passionate about. We all have something that we believe in and fight for, it is the same thing that wake us up in the morning and persuades us to continue going through our days. No matter how small it may seem, it is all the little things we believe in that give us a life to live.

Just a simple question.

Would you rather be poor but happy or rich but unhappy? Most people would tell you they would choose happiness with little wealth. People can easily choose this because it is only a hypothetical question. If they were truly given the choice most people would probably choose wealth over happiness. People are led to believe that with wealth, you can create an artificial happiness that will make everything seem okay.

It’s not that we are all greedy people, it’s just that throughout our lives, we were taught that money is an important factor in life. We need money to survive, we need money if we want to do anything. This idea has been fed to us for so long, most people spend their lives trying to find ways to wealth. We all forget that money isn’t really a means of happiness, but just a way to cover our sadness without finding a permanent solution.

Wealth is just an item we have to show to people to say that we are worthy of something. It isn’t saying that everyone who has money will flaunt it to the world, but simply stating that money plays a certain role in our lives. We believe those who have money are happy with their lives so we make it our mission to find a way to have wealth of our own. We create this image of wealth and believe it to be true without questioning whether it really is everything we think it to be. Wealth may seem like happiness, but it is simply something to help mask a deep sadness within.

This isn’t to say that all people who are wealthy are not happy, but it is saying that money truly isn’t everything. People who are wealthy and happy, are not happy because they are wealthy, they are happy because they are doing something they love. They aren’t happy with items they posses, those are just things that they enjoy to be around. A wealthy person would be happy because they are enjoying what it is they are doing in life, but not necessarily because they can make a profit. These people would be happy with their lives even without all the objects to show for it. Yet on the other hand, if they had believed the things told to them, then they would believe they weren’t happy and trade it in for something that would make them wealthy.

It’s also not saying that we do not value happiness, but we are wrongfully taught that happiness comes through wealth. Although, we aren’t necessarily told money is the only key to a happy life. Society simply makes it seem more difficult to achieve happiness if we do not have money to show. This ideal may be wrong but it is something that has been taught to people from a young age. A very few are able to break free and realize happiness is so much more than wealth.

What it comes down to is that we don’t need to be wealthy to be happy, and just because one doesn’t have money does not mean they are unhappy with their lives. Some people would choose to live a life of poverty so they can do what they enjoy. On the opposite side, people would be willing to do something that makes them miserable in order to have expensive objects. Happiness is simply something all on it’s own. We do not need money to be happy or unhappy, we simply need ourselves to say whether we enjoy what we are doing.

It gets hard to choose correctly in life because reality throws obstacles in our way. We feel happiness can’t be achieved without wealth because that is what we are told, reality would make it impossible to feel anything if we are poor because being poor means we are struggling in life. Reality steers us wrong because we are taught to believe whatever the mass say without question. All the talk of big houses and nice cars being a means to a great life make us believe it is true. We don’t question what this statement means by a great life. We refuse to believe that it is simply stating a high financial life and not a great joyous life.

Hypothetical questions are nice because they are simply that, hypothetical. We can answer with whatever we wish without having to worry about consequences. We like to wish for things without putting in factors of reality. It is simple to tell someone we would choose happiness over money because we don’t have to think of struggles. Hypothetical questions provide answers we all truly wish for, yet are too afraid to strive for.

It’s okay to show yourself.

Happiness is a necessity to be normal. Everyone makes it seem like it’s a disease to see the world through pessimistic eyes. How can society dictate how we should be in society is full of people that can’t even follow the simple guidelines? There are very few people who can say they are happy, and most that claim they are simply push down the feelings that say otherwise. The thing that bothers me the most is that when it seems someone is depressed, instead of trying to fix them we simply decide to medicate them in hopes that it will solve all problems.

Nobody lives without sadness, it’s a simple thing that everyone tries to deny. Sure, it’s not that they are completely depressed, but it is enough where they feel it should be hidden from the world as to not make them seem odd. People who refuse to deal with their emotions are usually the ones who break down behind closed doors. They don’t always have that fake smile they carry around with them because suppressing the sadness grows heavy with every step they take. It’s impossible to be fully happy, we all have parts of ourselves that can never see the bright side to moments.

I’m not saying that we’re all just depressed beings that need to be real with ourselves. I’m simply saying that there is a part in all of us that is depressed. Some are just willing to show that they aren’t as happy as the world pretends to be, and society looks down upon them saying that they aren’t behaving as they should. We all want to act like the world is this happy place and the people showing otherwise are making it hard, so we try our best to make them seem as if they are happy as well. The happiness we seek isn’t real happiness, but just a facade to make us feel better.

While I’m saying that it’s wrong for us to try to change people who are willing to show that they aren’t as happy as we wish them to be, I’m not saying that everyone doesn’t need to be saved. There are those who truly do need help, but not everyone fits into that category. If it does seem like they are in a state where everything around just seems to be dark and they can find no light, then by all means, help them. Yet, there are other means to helping them other than medicating them or trying to force happiness upon them. We should be willing to help them for their own benefits instead of doing it only to make ourselves feel easy.

Because the world tells us it’s wrong to be sad, people grow afraid to show their emotions and try to walk around as if everything is fine. By trying to keep everything in, we are doing harm to ourselves because we are unable to express what it is we want to. We should be telling the world that it is okay to feel what you feel and shouldn’t have to hide behind closed doors. When we think we are doing something better for ourselves by putting on a face that the world would approve of, we are actually doing harm because we are unwilling to let the world know that we are not all okay.

By no means am i saying that we are all depressed being just hiding behind a mirage. I am simply stating that we are not always happy. The world wants to believe that everybody is always happy and that being sad is rare, but in reality, it’s almost equal in the times we are happy and the times we are sad. Nobody is always either happy nor always sad, we are human. It is just that if someone is sad more than they are happy, society makes it seem like there is something that must be changed to make them feel like they are happy.

We put people into therapy and give them drugs because we feel it is our obligation to make sure that they are “normal.” We are forcing a happiness that isn’t there and trying to tell them that it is real. Happiness is a place we will all reach eventually, but it is something we should find on our own or with the ones we choose. Trying to force a smile on someone’s face only pushes the issues down but does not help to solve whatever it is that must be solved. Society needs to escape from the norms created and express the emotions they need to express without the worry of becoming an outcast. We need to show the world that it is okay to let you be you without hiding behind closed doors.

Failure is a necessity.

Failure is inevitable. If we go out and live our lives, we are eventually going to run into a problem that overcomes us. Without failure, we would never actually learn anything because there would be nothing to learn. Also, if we feared failure we would never do anything because we would dislike the possibility of not getting something correct. If we didn’t want to fail, the world would not be what it is today, and we would not be who we are as well. Failure is more effective than getting something correct because it shows us how to improve in ways we would not see otherwise.

We always try to hide all the things we did wrong in life, but that made us as much of who we are as all of our accomplishments. As much as we refuse to see it, without messing up, we would never be who we are because we would never learn how to better ourselves. If we manage to do something properly, we never look back upon it and see how we can improve what we did for the next time we are facing the same challenge. It is only when we fail that we look back to see how we can change our ways so that the next time we do it better.

Humans repeat the same mistakes made in the past, but it’s not because we are not aware of what had occurred, but it’s simply because we only truly learn from our own mistakes. We don’t spend much time examining the mistakes of other people, so we make the same mistakes as they made and we learn from our own experience. Failure is something we only examine if it is a personal failure, if it is a failure of others, it’s simply that, their failure. Since we are only able to learn from our own experiences, history does have the capability to repeat itself, but the way we perceive it will be different from when we just read of it in the history books.

With failure comes bravery. We grow the strength to continue on with our lives knowing that at any second we could do something that we wished hadn’t. It may not seem like it, but we wake up knowing of the chance of failure, and we push through it to continue on with our day. Even though we suspect it to come, there are times when it’s hard to push through in fear of failure. We don’t fear the failure itself, but we fear what the outcome would lead to. It’s up to every individual whether they are willing to let this decision possibly change lines in their lives, or whether they will cower away and continue on with their lives. It’s the moments of the possibility of a failure with large outcomes that show us what strength we have inside of us to persevere with our journey.

We don’t always learn from our failures. Some times we give up after attempting something out of frustration of failing. It’s our unwillingness to accept failure that some times leads to refusing to learn what was meant to be taught. We give up because we don’t want to fail again, but forget that it is failure that helps us grow. It may not seem like there are things to be taught, but there is always something we can learn from not getting things right. All the failures that lead to us not wanting to try anymore cripple us. Learning is human nature, and we need to have the strength to examine what we did wrong and try once more in hopes of getting it right.

The easiest thing to do is to hope for the best expecting the worst. It’s hard for us to look back at what went wrong because we hate the idea that we failed. It takes strength to overcome the failure and see what it was that made it a failure. Mistakes that are left alone are simply mistakes, but the ones we critique become more than just a simple mistake. It take time and patience for someone to be able to do this, but when they do, they become stronger. Knowing that there is the possibility of failing helps ease the burden of failing.

The dark bit in the pit of our stomachs.

A drive we all have in life is the drive of fear. What we do with it determines who we are. We may not give it the recognition, but fear is just as strong as a drive as love. We either live in the circle fear provides, or we try to strive and reach new boundaries. We all hate the feeling of fear, but we never realize how important it is to helping create our persona. There is a difference between fear that helps us and fear that just cripples us. It’s the matter of knowing which is which and trying to overcome the ones that simply cripple us.

Most people refuse to go out and face their fear because it’s just that, their fear. They spend so much time avoiding the things that bring discomfort that they never try to rise above it, they simply ride the waves chosen. Living a sheltered life isn’t always bad though. The fear we try to avoid keeps us from doing things without thinking of the outcomes, which helps keep our bodies away from unnecessary harm. With the help of fear, many of us would stay away from the edge of high buildings, running around sharp objects, and other mishaps. Fear may control us, but it’s not always bad to live in it.

A very few people are willing to go out and face their fears, these are the ones we some times consider brave. There are different directions the lives of people who do this go. Some can go out and do simple things such as going out and jumping out of helicopters, or getting on a simple board and going at high speeds with only a helmet and some padding to protect them. Other people may end up swallowing their fears and going out to do something heroic such as helping protect what they stand for or trying to make the world a bit brighter. These people can range from soldiers to just people willing to stand up and let their voice be heard, even if it costs them their lives. Some people will end up doing something stupid trying to live above their fears, and may end up in the hospital or dead. The ones that do something great with their ability to overcome fear, those are the ones that we remember.

I’m not saying that all fear is good though, there are a lot of irrational fears that just make us incompetent in life. There are some things that keep us from doing the most simple things such as going out and being who we are. These irrational fears could lead to people continuously putting on a mask in order to please the masses, to just not being able to go out and socialize with the world. These are the fears that keep us from properly living our lives because we are afraid of what would happen if we were to do anything, and these are the ones that we all must try to overcome. People have convinced themselves that these fears are so strong that they refuse to fight it.

There’s a very thin line for us between which fears are rational, and which aren’t. There is a huge difference between the two, but in our minds they have become so raveled up that we can’t tell which is which. Some times it seems like it’s actually a fear to try to unravel our fears. We simply refuse to try to figure which fears are irrational because we feel that all of them are logical and make us who we are. It’s human nature to refuse change if we feel that change isn’t needed. It’s the simple fears that keep us from trying to change ourselves for the better by trying to take out all the irrational ones that leave us helpless in this world.

This doesn’t mean everyone is either controlled by fear or live to overcome it. There are people who live in fear but manage to have moments where they break free from it. There are also people who live to beat their fears yet still some times venture away from situations. It’s just a matter of whether a person is willing to go out and try risking themselves everyday or are only willing to when certain situations call for them to do so. Everyone has little moments of bravery when a situation dictates we put our fears aside to help better situations. It ultimately comes down to whether we are willing to let the fear drive us or if we’re willing to go above it.