Fear is not a sense of security or safety; it is the anticipation of failure or disaster. Everyone faces fears on a daily basis, whether it is something simple, like the fear of being late for an appointment or class, or something larger, such as the fear of heights. Most fears are learned, but some are instinctive. The survival of the human race relies on instinctive fears such as being afraid of heights or of …showed first 75 words of 546 total…

…showed last 75 words of 546 total…of us probably would not be alive today. We fear the unknown because it could possibly threaten our safety. Knowledge plays an important factor in how we fear. When we learn about which spiders are poisonous, we should have a more logical fear of only poisonous spiders, instead of all spiders. Through knowledge, we can discover which fears we have are logical. This knowledge, can then give us the power to overcome our illogical fears.