Fear

The title of this post probably makes you afraid to read it. Don't worry, I'm not trying to instill fear, just understand it a little more deeply.

Fear comes at any given moment. You can be afraid of anything, anyone, or anywhere for no apparent reason. There are people in this world so deathly afraid of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of their mouths, there's a name for that fear; "Arachibutyrophobia."
Fear is like a monster, lurking around any corner. Fear is the thought that there could be monster around the next corner. Fear is a scary thing.

Sometimes fear itself can be your fear. You can be so afraid of that moment when something startles you, your heart will jump, and your breath will catch. You can be afraid of being paralyzed by that fright and not being able to act. You can be afraid, not of the monster around the corner, but by the fear that monster causes.

Everyone's afraid of something. Some are afraid of spiders, others of snakes, some of aliens, and some of peanut butter getting stuck to the roof of their mouths. But, Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Meaning, there's no reason to be afraid of spiders, snakes, aliens, and peanut butter. There is a reason to fear that moment of paralyzing fear, because you never know when it's going to come and how you will handle it.