TOPIC: How I was able to overcome my Fears

Hey guys it's me, Tay. So today's story is quite an impactful one. It's about fear in general and how you can overcome them.

To really dive into what fear is we need to look at it from a psychopathological perspective. It's quite an intricate topic so I have tried to oversimplify matters for you guys. The really meaningful part to understand is why do we fear things?

To take matters into my own hands I tried to solve this very question by traveling to Africa and see if I could fight lions. I ended up not fighting them because they seemed scary, however the next day I was faced with a struggle. I had initially confirmed my fears by not attending the lion fight and by that metric my body thought the environment to be unsafe. In other words, by me backing out the first time, I became even more scared to commit to the action. My fears have often driven me to play SSRP, which isn't ideal considering I'm human and I want to experience as much as possible.

Now fighting lions might be something to be scared off, but you should know that everything is equally scary as long as we feed the scarecrow its carrots- in other words, being scared makes you even more scared, and from that analogy I hope you understand why you should always face your fears otherwise you're going to be even more scared.

Anyways I backed out of my initial duel with fighting lions because I realized it was a stupid task. I instead decided to climb a big mountain and that's where I met Sandra, she was Polish with red hair and drank a lot of beer. Her shoulders were pretty wide, which I really liked because mine were pretty wide as well. We had a lot of things in common and I ended up getting in bed with her due to her understanding of monkeys. Yes, she had a PhD in animal stuff or whatever, but what really interested me was how much knowledge she had accrued on them from a behavioral standpoint - because it was knowledge that could be directly corresponded to humans. It's quite remarkable how monkey professors know so much more about things, and you might wonder why she knew so much? There's very little regulation on what we can do with Apes because they're not humans and cannot fullfill social contracts, which makes them more prone to experimentation.

Either way she taught me that apes are very much herd-like. They always teach each other about dangers, and I thought that was really insightful due to my own analysis of previously fighting with lions. I asked her if social pressure was another reason to why we're so afraid. Her answer was pretty convincing, but sadly I don't remember it in detail, although she had used primitive analogies suggesting that we inherently move collectively, and we always listen to each other. Aside from our prefrontal cortext which is able to abide by that law - we generally are driven by social constructs that we have set up everywhere, yet we do not take note of them.

So what's the moral of the story. Don't be afraid and don't listen to what people say. It's honestly self explanatory at this point. Knowing how we come to certain conclusions usually suffices our mental well-being with knowledge that drives us in a certain direction that we normally wouldn't have been able to otherwise. I hope with this knowledge you're able to face your fears.

Anyways take care, and I'll see you on downtown_v2

-T

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