Fear means Go

I got this article from Twitter #Social change. It tells of a man whose mother also told him the phrase “Fear means go.” It also told of when he was a young child, he was scared of going to his first day of school. He was going to be on live television and feared her wouldn’t have anything valuable to say. His mother told him that fear is a campus, and everyone must overcome it at some point in their lives in order to become the person you are destined to become.

The author also give a good example of how fear is still implemented in the older generation, such as being a judge and going into a class with other people who have a much higher and intimidating education they the author does. It does take a toll on people now a days, even for me, I still get a little intimidated by people who know a subject much better than I do. It’s fearful for me to speak up and voice what I have to say and be shot down by some other student who makes much more sense than I do. But this is just me, one person. It does not compare to how fear affects a whole community.

If people were to overcome this sense of fear that they have, for whatever reason, that we as a community could move forward, we could go! In my opinion, this phrase sums up the exact reason why we as a community don’t get involved as much as we need to. It is probably because we fear one another, or we fear of getting hurt physically and emotionally.

 Studies show that people who work full time jobs tend to go out and give back to the community more often than people who don’t, and the same goes for people who are married, they tend to be more trustworthy than someone who is single. Now a day’s people who give back to the community are indeed single and have low paying jobs. Is it the fear of not having any money to pay bills that causes people to not go out and make a social change? No one really knows for sure.

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