Over the past few months, we have begun the process of trying to make sense of who we are, what we believe and what morals, values and ideas we are trying to develop. Doing this, while sometimes extremely stressful and dare I say even aggravating, is an integral part of determining our place in the world. For those of you sitting at your computers week after week, cursing me to the fiery pits of the abyss for coming up with questions that make your brains bleed, please know that the reasons above are my motivation. Now, with that said, onto this week's brain blaster!
"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."
First, in your own words, interpret that quote from Mary Manin Morrissey.
Now that your interpretation is finished, and again, in your own words, ones that make the most sense to you, define for me the idea of "fear." It means different things to different people; what does it mean to you?
What is your biggest fear? What keeps you awake at night?
Is whatever your fear now the same as it was when you were a sophomore, a freshmen, an eighth-grader? How has the idea of fear evolved for you? What do you notice about the evolution? From where do you think this fear comes?
How often do you stop yourself from doing something because of fear? Do you ever regret not doing what you wanted to do?
When, if ever, is fear a good thing to feel? Why?
How do you deal with it?
A lot of scary questions, I know. Do your best.
(450-500 words/60pts)
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From the quote, you let fear take over before the dream does. Fear to me is a little speed bump in someone’s life. People and I will have fear. But I look at fear as a motivation to my dream.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest fear I think I think about and stay up at night and think about is losing my parents. My parents are a very very very big part in my life. Without my parents I don’t think I would be the person I am today. From the time I could remember they were always there for me in time of happiness and time of sadness and I hope that never changes but the biggest thing is about my parents they want my sisters and I to do whatever we put our minds to and whatever we choose to be or do they will back use up one hundred and ten present. And this fear has evolved greatly. Because if I did lose them I would have so much responsibility I don’t know what I would do. Because of what they do for my sisters and me and to keep this house and this computer running to do this blog I don’t think I could that all that in. That is why I am thankful they are here with my sisters and me.
I don’t remember not doing anything because of fear because in my life and my life is more than half of sports I go all out. But I do have the game time fear I would call it. The fear of not doing my job or doing the simple thing I do in practice I would mess up, like snapping the ball over the punter or quarterbacks head or missing a shot that I would have saved in my sleep. That is I guess the kind of fear I have. I never really stopped myself because when I get out there I just think of the positive things and just do it.
Fear is sometimes a good thing. Fear can put people in check or just give people a new look on life. Fear is going to happen one day or another and you have to look at fear and just think of all the positive things that gets you over or around that fear. If fear came at me I would take a step back and think about how I can come over this fear that I have. But if fear came out me so quick then I would just go for it and then learn from the fear.
There is so much fear going around in this blog I don’t like it at all. I am all about the good thing and fear is not one of them.
if you let your fears get in the way you will truly never be able to live your life to the fullest you will never get to experience dreams you have or had you will always be asking what if instead of finding out for yourself
ReplyDeleteFear to me is a minor block aid fear is something that you and I will always come into contact with but concurring that fear is what makes you stronger so fear can be a good thing and I am not talking about little things like the dark
My biggest fear would have to be being left alone all by myself in this big world with no one to guide me to love me and care what happens to me and to help me thru it
The fear of someone or something happening to my family especially my little brothers and sisters keeps me a wake at night always thinking if something happens wile I am sleeping its my fault I am sapost to be there for them protecting them making sure they are all right I am there big sister that’s my job
This has always been my fear because I don’t want them to go thru the same things as I went thru when I was younger
The idea of fear has made me a stronger person I am more aware and ready and from the 20 million fears I have had all my life I only have about 5 million now
I think this fear comes from my past and everything that’s happened to me up until this point and things I’ve herd and seen happen I stop myself often because of fear but I try really hard to over come it
If I let fear get in my way I will definatly regret it
I only think sometimes its ok too feel fear and that’s because overcoming your fears makes you a stronger better focused person in the future
"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith." This is so true, the fear of failure is the greatest barrier to success, we stop ourselves of doing the things we want to achieve, just because we are afraid of making mistakes. A dream is something we want so badly, but for us is like this dream is too far away, that we start making excuses to not do it, and therefore we start feeling this fear. Some people never get to accomplish their dream, others leave that fear in their pocket and see by themselves that dream wasn’t too far as they thought. I believe that you can loose many things in life, but what you can’t loose is faith. Faith is very important, because is the motivation that wakes you up every day, if you don’t have faith and you loose the hope for everything, then you will start to act and think negatively, you will have that thought on your mind that nothing will go the way you want to, this will get you nowhere.
ReplyDeleteFear is what you don’t want to know or experience. Fear is the only thing that can stop people to do something, because once you have the motivation and the strength you have it all. Fear can lead to motivation too, when you face your biggest fear you gain strength, courage and confidence. Fear is your biggest enemy, and you got to fight till it is totally destroy. Your enemy is always finding ways to not letting you live a good life, so don’t let fear get in your way. My biggest fear is losing the one’s I love, I can’t imagine myself living life without “them”, that is what sometimes keeps me awake at night, just thinking about the death of my parents makes me want to cry, I asked myself questions at night and I don’t find the answers, I know death is a part of the cycle of life, but I can’t deal with it, I know this has to happen one day, I just wish that this will take a very long time. When I was little I used to say that I wanted to die with my parents when we were old at the same time, but obviously I think different now, because I know that in the future I am going to have a family and that my husband and kids are going to need me. My fear has always be the same, even when I was in eight grade, I love my parents with all my heart, and when I was like five or six years old, I didn’t think about this too much, I was a kid, I didn‘t even think about death, but the fear has evolved, now I think about it always.
I don’t remember a day that I stop doing something because I was afraid. I don’t usually feel “fear”, I try to not feel this because I know that if I stop myself from doing something, then I will regret it. Sometimes I don’t want to do something. Because I am afraid of making a mistake, but if I don’t try it then I will never know what it feels like achieving the things I want, and enjoy it. Fear is not a good thing to feel, because that’s when we can’t get out of our mind, that the dream is impossible, is very important to ALWAYS have faith, even if you know everything is lost.
"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."
ReplyDeleteIn my book that quote is so true! You just have to let go of all the negative things and achieve your dream. Don’t let some stupid emotion get in your way.
Fear to me is just another emotion people have a tough time dealing with in their life today. Accomplishing something you don’t want to do will over come your fears. I don’t really want to say this but my biggest fear is losing my parents. Its just one of them things you cant get off of your mind. My life would be miserable without my parents. What keeps me up every night is when my mom and I almost lost our lives in a car accident. I remember every little detail like it was yesterday. “You should be grateful your alive, you guys should have never survived that,” the police officer said. Well that’s all I’m getting in to.
My fear now has definitely been the same my eight grade year. The idea of why fear evolved for me is because the more and more I think about it, the more and more I’m being feared. What I noticed about the evolution of fear is that fear is definitely doing its part on me. Fear comes from a place called your mind, or shall I say your emotions. How often do I stop myself from doing something because of fear? Hmm, I would have to say that if the outcome results in me being injured, I wouldn’t do it. I have never broken a bone and never want to ever in my life. I have been there when some one broke a bone and it does not look pretty. Yes, in a way I do regret not doing what I wanted to do because if I did break a bone, I would learn from my mistakes and not do something stupid later in the long run. I believe that fear is sometimes a good thing to feel. Knowing that if you have a fear and you over come that fear, you’ll feel good about yourself.
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger then your faith.” This quote says a lot. I believe the main thing this quote is saying is that when you are afraid of something so much that it takes over your faith, it takes away more then just your faith, it takes away dreams you may be trying to pursue in life. In life most people try to overcome these fears and they fail, so these people don’t get to do the things they have always dreamed of doing just because of this one fear. Lets say for example somebody’s dream is to join the air force, but this person is afraid of heights. This will crush that persons dream all because of that terrible fear. That is what the quote means to me.
ReplyDeleteMy definition of fear is something that somebody is afraid of and keeps you back from doing anything that deals with it. Fear is very strong. It can basically hold you back from doing anything. Fear will push you to the edge and then just when you are about to do it. BAM! It hits you. It will keep you out of your dreams, keep you out of having fun, basically anything. I have two biggest fears. My number one biggest fear is heights. I am deathly afraid of heights and for that I have missed out on some pretty awesome stuff. I try to do things that deal with heights but just when I am about to do it my brain says no. I can’t look down when I’m on bridges, I can’t look down when I’m on an airplane, I can’t do any of that stuff. I had a really hard time in project adventure last year because all that was, was jumping off of things. That made my fear of heights better but trust me, if I had the choice to do some of those things again I would choose not to. My second greatest fear is lightning. Every time there is a lightning storm I act like a baby. I can never sleep through them because I am too scared to fall asleep. I guess that would also be the answer to what keeps me awake at night. That has been with me for as long as I can remember. The idea of fear has evolved for me because I can do a little bit more with heights now then I could say two years ago. I think this is because I now understand that in there is a very slim to none chance that something bad is going to happen to me. I have no clue where my fear of heights came from but I believe my fear of lightning is because my aunt was killed by lightning. I always have that thought in the back of my head that that can happen to me. I often stop myself from doing things that deal with heights. Like I said with project adventure I missed out on a lot of activities because of my fear of heights. I do regret not doing those things because who knows, maybe I would have liked it and my fear of heights would have been gone. I don’t believe fear is ever a good thing to feel because I know whenever I feel fear, I feel that I am missing out on something. I also feel that there is something wrong with me and I am the only one that has this fear. I try my best to live my life normally with these fears hanging over me but they just really get to me whenever I am in one of these situations.
my number 1 idea of fear is dieing alone and lonely other then that its letting the people that i care for down these fears dont keep me from doing things they make me do things and yes these fears are way different i used to be afraid of hieghts until i jumped off a school i used to be afraid to be embarrised but you cant help that i learned that
ReplyDeleteMy biggest fear is and always has been the death of my entire family in one fatal accident.This is because it would leave me all alone.Fear does not come to me that easily.I just have trouble imagining life without my mom, brothers, and sisters.If they were to die I would probably go into to a state of extreme shock and depression.Leaving me as a shadow of my former self unable to get over it.This is one of the major reason for my fear.I never thought I would have tell someone my worst fear.this fear has been with me since I was a little child.And I have a feeling that it will stay with me till the day I die.Hopefully it never comes true.Besides that I don't really fear any thing else.Other things are just childish and slightly upsetting.
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ReplyDeleteWhen there is fear block it out, or go head into the fear and fight it off.
But truthfully I think fear means some goal that no one has attempted to tackle yet, something you don’t want to fail at. Something that makes you stop, makes you go away, exterminates whatever goal you have, sometimes. I have a couple fears. Maybe its waking up to find you have had no one all along you don’t have a house over your head a decent meal and warm clothes, its also not having the ability to be intrudouced to music. I don’t think there would be a joe today if he had no music, some people just have a pyshical and emotional drive when they have something important. My last fear is maybe just failing in life, failing in school, with friends…
It hard to say fear emotionally fractures people but it does, quite much so.
Its stopped my friend to achieve his goals in music. He is a really good drummer, and he only lets certain people listen to him, I mean this kid is amazing, and he wont play in a band because he is in fear of messing up the beat or missing the crash cymbol when needed. Fear is crippling, it stops people dead in their tracks. It sucks because it can hold back so much talent.
the biggest fear that i have is not being successful all i want in life is to be successful have a job a career and have a family of my own a wife and kids and a roof to cover their heads if i had that i would be fine not haveing that is my biggest fear being a lone broke with nothing to call my own the first time i had a job it felt so great and being able to buy my own stuff gave me such a confidence boost and a sence of growing up my biggest fear has always been being somebody that has to reliy on others to do something i want to be independant and have a wife and family to call my own cas i don't really care about anything esle but that and that has been my fear all my life and i learned that when i was in like 8th grade and ive relised that i am going to conquer that fear and not let it conquer me
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