We Have Nothing to Fear

But Fear Itself.

I was talking to Christophe tonight, and he brought me to this realization that Americans are afraid of everything. Its actually pretty shocking at everything we fear. We fear commitment and marriage, then comes the fear of having kids and being a parent, which comes with the fear of responsibility, so giving life is scary right? But wait, isn't the number one fear of a huge percent of Americans death? Then we fear things like going to the mall by ourselves that we might get abducted by some sort of fugitive, but we're too afraid to stay in our houses all day, because we fear loneliness. Germs are scary. Some of us don't even drink tap water because its not as sanitary as the bottled stuff. If we drop, say, a spoon on the floor, we immediately go get a new one, or if its food, we throw it away. But we all know that using that spoon won't kill us, or even make us sick. We fear getting cavities or having yellow teeth, but then go home and brush them so strenuously that it actually causes more cavities. We're afraid of our health and get medicine for everything, but don't want to take it because it might give us something else. We drink Diet Coke to keep a trim figure, but it has cancer causing carcinogens, which we're also afraid of.
Chris thought it was insane that his host sister actually wanted a new glass of water when there was one sitting on her dresser, just because it had been there for a couple of days. He didn't think twice when he pocketed a small piece of fur that he found on the ground when he went on a walk.

Why are we so afraid?!