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Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

Fear

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Fear, a 1 syllable word that holds a terrifying (in wanted but as the years passed by, a throbbing in
a literal sense) yet a vague meaning. A word that her chest wouldn’t let go of her. She always tried
revolves around a variety of versions of a certain to figure out what it was but at the end of the day
emotion. Fear is caused by the threat of harm, she couldn’t find a conclusion. Again, as years
real or imagined. People fear many things in this passed by, she started growing up learning about
world. The fear paradox itself was one known as things that she had never encountered before.
cowardice and abjectness in the ancient time. In Illness, happiness, death, she knew about all of
this day of age, it can be rather comprehended these components of life. Until one day, during
as an act of trauma, disorders or simply an emo- the humid weather whilst the wind breeze by,
tion. Likewise, there are also those who believe the news of her relative’s death struck her. She
that nothing scares them but in reality are just had the information of his reason of death as it
ignoring the true feelings. There are also others was expected. Cancer, a disease, was the reason
who simply don’t realise their fear as they wan- for such an outcome. That was the first time in
der about covering it with a cape of bravery until which she witnessed death. People were shed-
their final moments where they truly understand ding tears of the loss of their beloved one whilst
the journey of life and denotation of death. In she sat in a corner with her other cousins and
relation to the statement, this is the process of watched the scene unfold. No, she did not cry,
how a girl learned how to control her fear and she was not sad and that was what seemed so off
gain the acknowledgement of what comes after putting about this. She clearly inferred the situa-
that. tion but still couldn’t feel anything. She thought,
“Oh, maybe it’s because I have not known them
On October 30th, 2007 in the country of Tu- for a long time.” But, on the inside it was a whole
valu, Oceania, a girl was born. You know how different story. After this incident, time flew by
the story goes, she grew up as a happy child, no and the pandemic struck. At the beginning ev-
problems whatsoever. She had everything she erything seemed fine but as months went by, a