Fear of the Unknown
They say we fear the unknown For me it's different They say ignorance is bliss How can you fear something you don't know? That's how it is with me I was never scared of getting a ticket no matter how much and how often I sped. Up until I got my ticket-now just the sight of a cop car puts me into tachycardia. Even if I know I'm not doing anything wrong. I never feared failure. I had never failed. I always excelled-without even trying. Whatever I did- I did well without breaking a sweat.Till now. For the first time in my life I have stared failure in the eye and I am scared witless. The thought of failure is petrifying. Last semester when a few of my friends failed out of the program I was sympathetic, but it never occurred to me that if I didn't try harder, if I didn't really apply myself fully that might be. Now I see that I was deceiving myself. I was foolishly content and oblivious. We all have different things that motivate us. Finding motiva...