Definition Essay: What Does Fear Really Mean?

What is fear? Everyone has experienced some level fear before, may it be when they realized they have done something wrong, when they kept seeing that one creepy guy down the street just standing outside their door, while sitting at home at twelve o’clock in the morning watching a horror film, or encountering their one or many phobias. When fear hits, the body will start to feel as if it is frozen, breathing becomes difficult, the heart races and batters to the point where it feels like it will burst from their chest. So, just what in the world does the word fear truly mean? Well based on my own experiences with fear, I believe that it is the feeling of extreme anxiety or horror towards an object, a person, a place, an event in time, or a scene played before someone’s eyes; which in turn causes the rate of one’s heart to race, and breathing to accelerate.
I have had many different experiences in my life that left me with certain fears in my heart. One such example, I was about
Especially all of those creepy characters that Courage had to face really did tend to scare me at night. When the show had gone back to commercial I had look at the covers of my sheets to my absolute horror I found that the spider had crawled up onto my blanket and was sitting directly on the top of my covers, on my chest. My heart almost jumped out of my chest and onto the floor as my breathing hitched and I almost screamed. I didn’t want to have my dad to come and kill the spider. Nope, I wanted to try and be a big girl and kill it all by myself. I raised my hand over the spider and slammed my hand down on the place it was currently resting in an attempt to crush it to death, but when I raised my hand back up to see if it was dead. Its body had just bounced right back up, and scurried off somewhere. I then thought about how strange that the spider had just sprung back up seemingly unaffected by the blow that was administered to it by my