We are afraid of the wrong things

We are afraid of the wrong things, and for good reason. The only things that we are more afraid of than the things we don't know and understand are the things that we are told are bad for us. Even more than that, what makes us shake in our boots is things that we have experienced that still haunt us.

For people my age (21) that spectrum is huge. It ranges from drug usage and heartbreak to the fear of being like our parents. At the make or break point of our lives we are at the point where we have experienced enough bad things to make us live in a more cautious manner but still there is so much that we haven't done that scares us.

And telling the wrong from the right is probably the biggest challenge. Once you can do this it is almost safe to say you have made the transition to being a mature adult. So until we have reached that point we should be scared of the unknown.

So what are the wrong things? Do we listen to our parents? Maybe the rest of our family? Or possibly our friends?

Well at the end of the day it is your life and you are the person that has to deal with the aftermath of every decision. So I would say find your area of common ground between what you hear, what you know and what your gut feeling tells you.

And by all means be scared, fear is your mind's way of telling you that you should be careful.