Chapter 2 - Fear is not what it seems

Hi there, have you even been afraid of something? Why are you afraid of it? Why would you feel this fear? Do you know what fear is? Why'd you have it?

For the average human, fear happens occasionally. The basic fears are things, "things", and things that are happening. If you can't think of anything to be feared upon, let me spell out some examples.

1. A high speed moving vehicle is right in front of you heading to your direction.
2. You hear foot steps behind you in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, behind the back alley.
3. Cops around you looking for the jewel that you stole a few minutes ago.
4. Aliens in your backyard.
5. Robbers in your house ransacking while you're in bed.
6. The dark.

Let me first explain, that there are 2 types of fear. From the examples that I have said, are you able to categorize them into 2 categories?

Now, let me define the 2 types of fear; fear is something which you know what will happen later, that is called the physical fear and fear that you do not know what will happen later, which is the mental fear.

The physical fear grabs hold of the examples 1, 3, and 5, while the mental fear takes 2,4, and 6.

When you come across the physical fear, you know what will happen next and you don't want it. A car clashes with you, and you are sent flying with pieces of arms and legs floating around you. It hurts, you don't want this to happen, so you fear. The cops gets a hold of you because you stole a diamond that throws you into a national security prison full of thugs and other criminals, serving a few tens of years. A robber in your house finds you and you can roughly guess what he will do to you..... depending if you're a guy or a girl... if you're good looking or a pancake.

When you come across something that you really don't know what the heck will happen or is happening, that is the mental fear. Foot steps following you and as it gets closer and closer, you panic, thinking what the heck will happen to me? Who's following me? Is he human or supernatural?! or if you notice aliens in your backyard(though none of you that is reading this will have a backyard so just make it your back door) and you fear because you don't know what will come next. You just don't know... and finally the dark, where it is a place you can't see anything, nor hear anything. And your mind keeps bugging you about I'm going to see something, I'm going to feel something but I just don't know what...

After having said everything up there, basically, physical fear is something you have knowledge of what is going to happen and it's not good, and mental fear is where you have no knowledge of happenings. Both these sticks close to knowledge. Therefore you can assume that if you have knowledge, you will fear half less for physical fear and non at all for mental fear.

While it is hard to actually neutralize physical fear, there is a chance that you can totally nullify mental fear, which will not be easy.

The only option to neutralize physical fear is to keep calm and know what to do, thinking ahead of the safest possibilities that will occur.

Nullifying mental fear will be having knowledge of what will happen, and what are the possible results. While I may not have mastered nullifying mental fear, it is up to you to try to attempt it.

Let's start with footsteps. If it is human, it's common sense to go to a place bright lighten, and people or cars that passes through. If it is something supernatural, I'll leave it with the dark later.

If it is aliens, well.. that won't be happening anytime soon so you might wanna forget about this.


The dark, is where a majority of people tend to panic when in this situation. Honestly, if you don't believe in anything, there is nothing to be afraid of. Monsters will not appear, the boogey man below your bed will never appear, the closet monster is just another cloth in the closet.
The only thing people are afraid of is the supernatural in this type of condition. But let's think of it rationally and as open mindedly as possible, have you ever heard about your friend, read in the newspaper or saw supernatural beings kill people? Saw them in half, strangle them and their whole family, blasting them into little pieces of meet enough to make char siew pau?

If you did, then you are hallucinating. Why? Because it is a human being that actually kills and do whatever you think a supernatural being does. Those beings even if you believe they exist, will only scare you, scare the wits out of you, touch you, scream at you, push you around, slap you a bit, kiss you, hug you... and whatever else. If they are able to saw you in half, then it will be an everyday news in the newspaper where the title states "Mysterious event!! A person was blasted to pieces of meats in his own apartment!!"

If you know they will not be able to hurt you, why be afraid? The worse is that they take over your body... but when that happens, you won't even know it, why be afraid? Imagine this, you're sleeping on your bed, then suddenly an ugly face supernatural being screams at you in front of your face.. and keeps screaming and pushing you around for 1 whole month non stop while you're on the bed... Honestly, you might have gotten shocked for the first few seconds... It'll be boring later on.. He'll continue to scream while you're looking at him with a face "Are you done yet? I have work to do."
So the next time you're in a situation where you fear, just have the knowledge of what will be happening for the source of fear is lack of knowledge. And after all that, you will notice that fear is not a factor for you.