Since we’re all human it’s normal to have fears. Some are common like fearing the dark, heights, or spiders. While others are a bit more unusual like fearing long words, symmetry, or beards. Some are seen as rational, like electrocution, because they could cause us harm. Others are irrational, like clowns, due to its harmlessness. Yet our irrational fears can become rational depending on the circumstance. If we were at a circus and saw clowns juggling it would be irrational for us to fear them because they couldn’t hurt us. But if we were chased through a haunted house by a clown holding a chainsaw, then it would be appropriate to fear clowns.
Our fears only exist to prevent us from harm. So if we fear truly harmless things then we’re just getting in our own way, and making it more difficult to live how we want. Many people have taken it upon themselves to face their fears so it doesn’t hold them back. Yet a fear is still a fear whether it’s rational or not. And there’s one universal fear we all have yet to truly address -death.
Death is a topic that not many of us like to think about, much less talk about. It’s a fear we all have. Yet we speak about it in hushed voices and only when someone we know is close to dying. When we know someone who’s dying we talk about what a wonderful life they’ve lived. We ask them if they have any regrets or what they wish they could’ve accomplished. We focus solely on the living part of dying -not the actual death part.