What is fear? Every day I wake up, the state
of the confusion was just full of my mind. This is my life, and probably this
is yours, too. We live in a world which is filled with worries and fears. For
the poor, they worry living from hand to mouth, never knowing where the next
meal was coming from; for the businesspeople, they worry if they would be
scolded by their boss. Everyone know that the definition of fear is an
unpleasant emotion or thought that you have when you are frightened or worried,
and the examples mentioned above are the kind of fears, too. In the modern life,
there are lots of fears surround us. Do we need to be manipulated by the fears
and compliance the signal from our mind that keeping you worry? Actually no we
don’t. Perhaps we can change our mind to be more relaxing, we don’t need to be
so stressful to fix the problem, regardless of the fake news spreading,
relationships building and keeping, or even schoolwork performing. On the other
hand, we can face the fear positively.
Because of the improvement of technology, we
can easily do anything which is restricted by time and space before, that is
called spacetime convergence. In addition, the rise of “social media” is also a
symbol of progression but, here is the problem, the information could simply be
delivered in recent decades, how can we guarantee that everything is true? The
first thing related to fears that I want to talk about, it’s about fake news
spreading. Why fears always surround us? The shit stirrer—media person, most of
whom just like to spread some information which is fabricated by their self
because of the different position. Surfing Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, or other
websites, or even watching the TV programs is my daily routine, I can receive
lots of information, something good, something bad; something correct, and
something wrong. Just take
COVID-19 for example, in 2020, the Coronavirus epidemic was pandemic over the
world, some people may spread some fake information of the confirmed cases so
that many people start to be very scared that they will get sick,
will need to be isolated. But obviously,
it’s all fake! Because the information spreading is so
quickly and simply, many people can receive the wrong information immediately. That’s why I said media could be a necessary
part of fear. It lets lots of people lose their judging abilities.
Another one, is
about relationship. The personality was decided by our parents in mom’s uterus,
we could hardly change by ourselves’ acquired efforts. So why fears always surround
us? Simply categorizing, the personality could be divided into extroversion and
introversion. The first kind of people may probably have few obstacles to making
friends, but the second kind of people would almost be opposite. They have
difficulties in chatting, communicating, etc. They may start self-blaming that whether
it is their ugly appearance, or they are too heavy, or they have black skin,
which lead to discrimination that cause they were marginalized in the society.
They are just so worried about this issue, it is a kind of fear, isn’t it? But definitely,
that’s not a big deal. Maybe sometimes we will care about what other people’s
thinking of us, that’s normal, undoubtedly. But just remember, you are an independent
individual! Why you need to care what they’re really think about us, and what
they are looking forward to us? just be yourself! so here is the other problem is
relative to fear—schoolwork performing.
For many of the
students, they have pressure in being on time to go to school, finishing their
homework designated by the teachers, going to cram school after school for
getting high score in tests. This situation is obvious in many junior high
school students and senior high school students. It’s almost their daily
routine. So why fears always surround us? because of the education system in
Taiwan, we need to get higher score in tests if we want to surmount other
people. It seems to be that only scores can decide all the things. According to
the survey, 60 percent of the child feel stressful because of the academic
performance, and 50 percent of the child feel stressful because of the parental
expectation, and even 38 percent of the child have high expectation on their
own. After leaving school, you go eating your dinner immediately, and then you go
to cram school to late night, and after coming home, you still have a lot of
things to do, like taking a wash, eating some snacks, watching some TV programs
for relaxation. And you go studying to 1 A.M. or even 2 A.M., we worry that we
couldn’t get enough score in school, or we couldn’t reach our goal in
anticipation. I think this situation a serious problem, especially in some
private school. Because their parents demand, their teachers demand, they need
to study very hard. But not only them, actually, when it comes to the students
in Taiwan, most of whom are facing the same problem. Then how could we solve
this spiritual torture problem? You need to take a break opportunely, taking a
break will not only help you relax, but also help you keep calm, which can let
your immune system be stable and healthy, it’s really the best of both worlds.
With the improvement
of the world and the growth of the humanities, we may be busier than before. Indeed,
there are more responsibilities that we need to comply with in this generation.
But those mentioned above will cause you to live in a fear shadow. More fear,
more stimulation, if the environment doesn’t allow us to avoid the fear, than
why not face it positively?
