Fear

Fear When I was young, I used to fear the night. I thought that in the darkness, there was no life but the ghosts who would come alive in the darkness, so I refused to go out after the sun had set. One time my friends invited me to go to the camp in my primary school; I began to recognize the irrationality of my fear. It happened when I was at the age of six. My parents sent me to a one-week Camp. They hoped that I would become braver. According to the school’s schedule, we had to hike at night in the jungle every day. We walked in the jungle without being able to see the direction so that it could send shivers down my spine. The walk was terrifying. Everything was in the dark. I tried to walk on tiptoe so as not to wake the ghosts at night. Although I was really scared of the darkness, I tried not to turn on the electric torch because the ghosts would see and come get me. Thus I just walked carefully step by step and extended my arms forward to search for any obstacles along the way. After a few hundred steps, I suddenly found my hands touching something long and damp. I was startled; I turned on the torch light, looked up and see many of similar organisms hanging from the towering trees. It was the same everywhere. It felt as if I was stuck in the midst of a maze and unable to escape. I so scared, I ran away and I tripped. I came back to the tent with a few bruises on my forehead. I closed my eyes and tried to stay calm, but the image of those terrifying creatures hanging on the trees kept replaying in my head. Suddenly, I felt somebody patting on my back. It was the watch leader. She asked if I wanted to take a walk with her. I answered "Of course not", I would never come back there. But she replied "This time, I will hold the torch light. Trust me, everything will be fine." I wanted to refuse, but her voice seemed as a magic. It made me unable to refuse her and I agreed to walk with her. After a long walk, the watch leader and I sat down near to one another on a tree buttress root. Then she shone her torch light at the long creatures which I was scared of. I shuddered, but she forced me to look at them and told me that those were called vines, a type of vines and that they would not be able to harm me. Then she told me to close my eyes and listen. For once, I realized that I had been wrong. There was life at night after all. After a long time sitting there, I started to laugh at myself. How could anyone be afraid of a tree' After that night, darkness no longer holds a terror in me. My leader said that there is no such thing as supernatural, even ghosts. If they were real, they would be as natural as living things. I was deeply thankful for the watch leader, who had taught me to confront with my fear of darkness. Today, I’m much older and become a college student. Fear of the darkness no longer holds a terror in me. But I have to face new fear, looking for a job today is a little bit harder than before because the economic is going down, the unemployment rate is sharply increasing. Searching for a job is a fear of many people now. After graduating from college, I have to find a job as soon as possible. Getting a job helps me in earning money and paying my loan. Otherwise, I would become a debtor, and it would pose a serious effect on my life. My greatest fear now is searching for a new job. There are two main things which are involved in searching for a new job. These are being prepared for a new job, attending a job interview. I am not sure what I should do when I get a new job. I hear many people say that working is not the same as learning. I’m not sure whether it is right or wrong but it scares me though. The big challenge I have to face in searching a new job is the interview. Many people get nervous and even fearful before and during a job interview. I am among them. This is because of the pressure to do well and to impress ones who interview me. The audience may be one person or a team of people who are checking over my qualifications for the job. Although finding a new job has some challenges, it is not a big deal to me. Anyway I have to face with it, I also have some plans to deal with it. First, I have to trust myself. I try to do my best at work, think about what I know and what I am good at doing and listen to the advice of other people. Second, I have to prepare for the interview, practice many times at home. During the interview, I have to relax, listen and try to make them like me. Finally, self-confidence gives me more power to overcome my fear. Fear is an unpleasant feeling of anxiety caused by pain, harm or threat of danger. The way to overcome the fear is to simply figure out what you will do in each of the possible situations. I faced fear in the past