My Greatest Fear

you've failed computer science, and you have a carry over one of the students told me after checking the semester's result. Failing was my greatest failure, but for some reason I didn't panic. I had always visualized not being able to bear the idea of failing, but there I was still acting normal with no sign of depression. Not because I knew I couldn't fail any subject I sat for the examination, especially not computer science, which was a walk over for me but because I couldn't change it. Then I realized fear of failing wasn't actually my greatest but something quite different.

My greatest fear was the fear of the unknown. Whatever I don't know , I fear. My fear of failure was because I did not know it, and it was the reason why I was afraid to try something new. What I don't know fear me. The setback of this fear is that it hinders me from trying anything new. It's called neophobia and it's a demon that loves dormancy and hates progress. Give it room and one will remain stagnantstagnant in life for a very long time.

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After the news got to me, I approached the lecturer and told him that was not my result, that was because I was the only one who finished the examination before the set time and I knew what I wrote. After that day, I never had a phobia for failure, and that was because I had encountered it. My fear was easy to conquer, all that is needed to conquer my fear is to encounter it first hand. Whatever I fear, if I give it room to meet me first hand, the fear ends there. So it was a matter of letting my fear get to me and it ended there. Just like the music lyric, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

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