You Are A Badass Analysis

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In Jen Sincero’s You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life chapter 20 is about fear. Fear is like a prison where people get a life sentence. It’s not their fault though. People don’t want to be afraid of things, but were taught to not take risks and be cautious of everyday things. Sincero states, “We’re pumped full of it as children, like sugar, then as we grow we continue to take the bad news on TV and the horror in the papers and the violence in the books and films and video games and all the junk that fills us to the brim with fear about our world. We’re taught to play it safe and not take risks, and to caution everyone around us to follow suit.” (168). Not only is it taught but it is spread by people from their …show more content…
But not in the sense of me doing anything dangerous for them to be worried. It would be the small things such as running around playing tag or chasing my dog. I would always hear my mom say “Maryna, be careful you’re going to fall. Stop running you’re going to get hurt. Be careful and don’t do anything stupid.” Now I’m not sure if it was mainly because they didn’t want to deal with my reaction after getting hurt or if they were fearful of the what if’s. With this type of parenting I have grown up being afraid of the small stuff. I have the mindset of thinking the worst will happen or has happened for any event. If someone doesn’t answer my phone call the first thing I question is “Why didn’t they answer? I hope everything is alright.” I was taught to fear the world and what’s in it and that has truly fucked me up. I need to get over the fear that bad things are always going to happen because in most cases, 98% of the shit you worry about never happens in the end. I am trapped in the prison of fear and I am going to break down the walls and learn the world isn’t out to get me and everything isn’t always necessarily
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