Fear Cuts Deeper Than A Sword.

If the people in the world really cared about the world they live on wouldn’t they do something? Wouldn’t they stop bullying? Stop making the world about themself when all it does is tear them apart; because it gets tiring, it gets tough on the mind? It’s not that simple. It’s not that easy. All the human body wants is to be known. Is to be heard. To be recognized of themselves. They want people to love them and why you may ask? Because it feels good in the moment, it makes them feel like they matter in the world. But read these words- you are known, you do matter. You don’t have to feel that the world has to be revolved around you. It might be the words that you’re being called, “a slut, a whore, a hoe, a loner, depressed, boring, not pretty enough, too fat, too skinny, no friends,” but they are lies. People, they assume things. A lot. They are quick to judge. It’s the social media. The media, people take what you post, what you say, what others say about you, and assume that they are true without going to you and asking, talking to you. We believe these things, because we are lazy to talk to people, we are scared to confront people. We let fear stop us from doing things we will regret later. We don’t care what is true or what isn’t true at the end of the day. We lay in our beds at night and just think about what tomorrow will bring, we think about all the mistakes we’ve made, we don’t think about how to build others up, how to better someone else’s life; because we only want to better our own lives.

It’s easy to let fear control you. It happens without you even realizing it. The moment when the idea of complimenting a girls outfit comes to mind and you blow it off because you’re too self conscious, you don’t want them to think you’re weird, that’s fear. Or the time when you wanted to say hey to an old friend because you miss them and you don’t because you don’t want them to see you as weak.

They say fear cuts deeper than a sword. Which is true. Fear has stopped the world and people from being who they truly are. A sword is a physical reference while fear is mental. Personally, I feel mental is more powerful and more difficult to overcome. Which is why they say fear cuts deeper than a sword. The reason behind why I feel mental is more difficult is because I’m fighting a mental illness, I’m living the daily battle. It’s easy to push aside your sadness, your depression, your mental illness, when you’re told you’re faking. When you’re told you just want attention. It’s easy to believe those lies. You can push aside those feelings, those struggles, because of the fear. The fear of letting them see that you are hurting, that you don’t want attention you just want help, that their words actually do affect you. But they don’t understand, they don’t know what you’re going through, and they won’t; but that doesn’t mean to let the fear stop you.

Being chained to an emotion, a feeling. It’s like a burden. It’s like someone putting a 50 pound weight on your back and making you carry it around all day, every day. You feel like you can’t put it down or your world goes crumbling down. Being chained to an emotion, like fear, is emotionally draining. You feel it’s yours to carry, no one else’s. You feel stuck, trapped. So what do you do when you feel chained to an emotion like fear? Do you tell someone? Do you live with it? Here’s my point of view, I would tell your closest friend, give it to the Lord. You don’t have to carry it. Believe me. I’ve been there, I still struggle with it, but I’ve been where you are. Feeling like you have to carry that pain, that hurt, the fear, the self-doubt. You weren’t born to carry it. It’s too much on a person to live with.

My point in writing this is, if people took a second and realized that if we just cared a little more, put in a little more effort, the world would be different. People would walk around more confident. People wouldn’t look in the mirror and hate who they see. They wouldn’t try to be these standards the world has set. They wouldn’t feel so chained by fear. It’s not easy. But it’s not impossible. So what’s stopping you? Is it the fear of being different? The judgement you’ll get? Why let that bother you when you know what’s right? We were created to show love. Show forgiveness. To boost other people with confidence. To build people up, not tear them down. Because the Lord will always provide.

Yes it’s a good thing to have self confidence but not when you let it control how you feel. How you react. How you approach others. When you let it overcome the good instead of letting it defeat the bad.