Fear Vs. Courage
October 21, 2025 Mizan Ali, Asst. Teacher
Fear vs. Courage highlights two contrasting yet interconnected emotions. Fear is like when your heart races, your palms get sweaty, or you feel shaky before doing something that scares you. Fear can impact a person’s life in both positive and negative ways.
Negative:
1. Physical Health leads to chronic stress, high B.P., sleep deprivations, tension, fatigue
2. Anxiety and Depression decrease self-esteem, panic situation
3. Fear can lead to avoiding situations or activities
Positive:
1. It increases awareness, can sharpen focus, and helps people to stay alert.
2. Fear is a natural, subjective feeling; there is no place for objectivity in it. Everyone has this feeling at some point in life.
Courage can be used to handle fear. People believe that courage is the absence of fear. But I think that courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it is the ability to deal with it.
Courageous people do feel fear, but they can manage it. Courage is the willingness to act despite fear.
Finally, fear is normal, but courage is what helps us grow.
Mizan Ali
Sunbeam School Indiranagar
