Why are we afraid of the wrong things?

As the new generation of these days we are not afraid of the wrong things we are afraid of the right things and we are afraid of what people say about the decision we took. We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confusing habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones. We always jump to do the wrong things thinking that we doing the right thing and when results come out its only then we realize we done wrong. We always like to take a challenge and risks about our future, ourselves and everything that has a value in life e.g. our [parents are giving us opportunity to pursue our dreams and visions but we through that away by mixing important things with parting, clubbing and falling pregnant and end-up with no future.

For every fear conquered we gain strength, courage and confidence we thought we never had. I truly believe that we think about security more than we think about opportunity. I truly believe that people are often afraid to live and unleash their own potential. By being too afraid to live and experience good things in life we may never have been able to fly. We are so afraid of failure that we actually end up crippling ourselves by putting negative thoughts in our head, a simple self fulfillment

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