Fear is an emotion of a basic survival mechanism. It is a mysterious force that caused anxiety and agitation due to the presence of imminence of danger. It is a state or condition marked by this feeling, afraid or frightened to something or somebody. Fear is a feeling of distress, apprehension and worried. We have something to be afraid of. But, there are few ultimate fear that we cannot avoid.Survival
As the world keeps changing, one of the ultimate fear is the fear of survival. It relates to the personal emotion to compete with others or everything in order to stay alive. The world economy is always unstable, rough politics caused war and lived among the society of lies and distrust. For these individuals, it is hard to trust and grossly unsatisfied to everything. After the incident of 2012 doomsday, the fear of survival becomes the most important thing to take note. Now, this fear leads to the certain kind of training and skills in order to survive in this world during apocalypse or in extremely desperate situation.
Fear to the unknown forces, ghosts or dark spirits were one of the oldest fear among people. People had celebrated many events to pleased the spiritual creature. Usually, this fear caused some visual effects as they believed that they can see the things in the dark. Back to the old days, it was part of important beliefs, cultures and religions as people must admit the power. During the medieval age, this fear includes the magical thinking and paranormal situation. It also part of mental sickness where the victim's behaviour could be very overwhelming, panicking and possibly can be complicated to diagnose. In modern world, the fear to the unknown called as phasmophobia.
Cannibalism
Eating human flesh is still taboo even to these days. Flesh eater can be consider as monster, uncivilized creature and also part of mental issues. It also known as a serious obsession to eat meat and it always be consider as the gross thing to do. Even in the fairy tale story such as Hansel & Gretel, or in modern writings such as The Silence of the Lamb and Sweeney Todd never approve the guilt of eating and licking someone's meat. Most of people couldn't understand the obsession because the eater is almost like being spooked and addicted. Some of them refer this as a survival (back to the first fear). But, the most fearful thing about human is they can't stop consuming. The desire to eat can be the greatest force to stay alive and confront the death itself.
Fear of death is a complicated phobia. It also tied into the religious beliefs and knowing the fact that the death is unpredictable caused a serious anxiety. This fear usually leads the victim into every kind of salvation, looking for the divine afterlife or some guarantee that they will absolutely not enter the hell chamber (refer to the last fear). Most cases are based on religion supplement and the desire to achieve the ultimate way to avoid the eternal condemned. Some people with an apparent fear is actually more afraid to the circumstances that occurs while dying which is afraid of pain and tremendous sufferings. Regardless, the power of control is the most basic thing in human and as they realized that the death is utterly outside anyone's control, it caused some delusive-behaviour and devastated condition, physically or mentally.
Hell
Hell is the oldest, the longest and the most historical fear in human history. According to many religions, hell can be described as the eternal place of complete torture, suffers, fire and the dark place where the victims will stay there for the rest of their life. Since the early age, people always seek the way to overcome this fear by salvation such as a purifying ritual at St. Patrick Purgatory, Ireland. This fear of damnation is depicted as the living place for devil, demons and all kind of dark forces (back to the second fear) and this fear is basically caused by the fear of the condition in hell which is completely not comfy, the self-guilty after committed sins, or somehow become obsessed into their own eventual damnation. Even some people said that hell is the tool of oppression so people will return to the fairness and tranquility or forced to contemplate their mortality, it is still the greatest charm of living as a human. If we believed in comfy life of heaven, we must admit the fiery life of hell.
"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here"-
Marianne Williamson
For more information, please refer to:
Hell phobia
Hadephobia
Irrational death fear
Thanatophobia
Cannibalism
Phasmophobia
Anatomy of fear
Survival Fear
Free dictionary
Fear wikipedia
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