POST 1: There is nothing to fear, but fear itself

Last night while i was thinking of a topic for the blog, i decided to play one game of League of Legends. It was during a decisive clash when the enemy Fiddlesticks cast fear on my Nami. I was unable to do anything for 3 seconds while their adr was throwing a flurry of attacks and our ADR (Attack Range Damage) was left unsupported. then I thought, what is fear? In the game, fear caused my character to flee in terror. But what do we really fear?


Since the beginning of time, man has feared what they do not understand. Men feared fire when they didnt know waht it was. it was only then when they learned what it can do that they were able to control and harness it for its uses.

I searched the web and found an article on about.com that lists the top 10 common phobias. below is the said list of phobias.

Top 10 common phobia:
acrophobia -fear of heights
claustrophobia - fear of enclosed spaces
nyctophobia - fear of the dark
ophidiophobia - fear of snakes
arachnophobia - fear of spiders
trypanophobia - fear of injections or medical needles
astraphobia - fear of thunder and lightning
nosophobia - fear of having a disease
mysophobia/germophobia - fear of germs
triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number 13

I think phobia is probably caused by a bad  experience or even psychological factors. It is embedded deep in our sub consciousness perhaps when faced with these situations, we sometimes panic or get paralyzed in fear. Having fear is sometime helpful to us. for example, we are motivated to the the right thing for fear of getting convicted. Fear helps keep us in line. from a survival point of view, fear helps us to survive. It helps us anticipate or even predict threats that could happen around us. 

In the end, its up to you if you would like to control your fear or let fear control you.