Fear is a
fascinatingly strong emotion. According to my own observations, it
can affect your behavior more strongly than any other emotion. And it
doesn’t come as a surprise to me.
We all have our own fears, and that’s completely understandable. I myself used to have an irrational fear of death. What was odd about it was that it could pop into my mind at the most random of times. It knew no limits. Luckily I grew out of it.
To my understanding, a lot of people are afraid of heights. I can relate to them to some extent - although I’m not afraid of heights themselves, but rather, I’m afraid of falling. I can’t look down without being struck by the thought of falling and hurting myself, or worse yet dying.
I also recall one instance of literally being afraid for my life some years ago. I believe I was 14 years old when it occurred. I was just about to go to sleep when I started feeling very uneasy. Not uneasy in the sense that I vomited or anything, but uneasy in the sense that I felt as though I was lying unconscious. Which I was not - I was, in fact, fully awake and standing firmly. I honestly thought I was going to die that day, but luckily I did not.
Luckily indeed.