Steemit Engagement Challenge S18 W3 | Overcoming fear

What is your biggest fear in life?
Represent your greatest fear in a literal or abstract way in an artistic expression or photograph (show step by step)
Do you have any phobia?
How do you motivate yourself to overcome fear?

Hello dear friends I must say it's an honor participating in this week engagement challenge, I was indeed attracted by the content topics and the template in which should be followed to make an entry. Also a community has a good reputation of which I want to be part of by show me high quality contest entry to the community.

For my experience and knowledge I believe that every living things like human beings and even animals have something they actually fear, no matter how brave or strong you are or how intelligence you tend to be or even how connected you are there must be something that gives you a reason to fear.

So many people believes that fear is an act of weakness and powerless but I must say to you the act of fearing is sometimes inevitable, the only thing that differentiates people and their fears is how they face that fear and their facial
emotional expression and emotion when they are fear comes to them.

In my own perspective and believe I think what actually make people look like weaklings is when people start to run or avoid their fears why the stronger ones tends to stand and face their fears no matter the circumstance that might generate from their reactions and actions towards this fear of the theirs.

As a man my biggest fear turns out to be not becoming successful in life and achieving all my goals, one of the biggest weakness a man can have is the act of being poor, that is to say when a man cannot provide his and his family basic needs I want he becomes vulnerable to those who has enough to feed themselves and their family at large.

In my country the poor males are treated as if it doesn't matter in the society and their opinion sounds worthless to the to the hears of other individuals when compared with the opinion and speech from a rich and influential individual. There's nothing giving me so much joy as when I have enough to feed myself and my family without bothering or ask you for help from other individuals whether family or Friends.

The image above shows you my biggest fear, on the left side of my design you would say an individual who has on turn and dirty socks on the hand and on the leg, why on the top most right you would see poor black children begging and hustling to get a plate of food as a result of hunger and poverty then finally in the lower right picture you will see a man with singlet who left the comfort of the bed with his wife just to think about his poor condition.

How I composed my design in 4 easy steps.

Step 1: I created a dark green background on which I would for my image collage that's represent my fear.

Step 2: I inserted the first image which was the image you can clearly see at the left, also is obvious that it is also the biggest image there

Step 3: I did that in all three images and arrange it in the best formate that looks attractive to the eyes.

Step 4: I added necessary filters and other edit that would make the collage look perfect in the eyes of everyone

I must say I have a lot of phobia, but before continue I would love to define what is the word phobia means. Phobia is a special type of fear that comes with this irritation feeling and excessive anxiety feeling that makes you want to leave their environment or stop the activity with immediate effect.

As an individual I must say truth I have so many phobias but I will talking about the few that I know I cannot change anytime soon. One of my biggest phobia is something funny but I hope you don't laugh too much, I have Arachnophobia. This is special type of phobia that makes individuals feel insecure irritated and disgusted whenever this is spiders most especially the hairy looking spiders.

This phobia has been haunting me since my childhood, but the good news about it is that whenever I see a hairy spider I tend to be the first to go for the attack. I know I am supposed to let them live happily but because of my phobia it's two thing involved, is either I attack them or I live the environment inorder to stabilize myself again.

Another funny phobia I have is Acrophobia, this is the fear of high places or other word far height, whenever I clamp a bridge or whenever I climb a ladder I tend to get this phobia that makes me want to close my eye. But again as a man that I am and as a believer of fight your fear, most times are engaged in climbing the ceiling to una networking job, check other stuff voluntary . This act helps me to know how to manage my different phobias, and it helps me not to easily get breakdown whenever I faced with this phobias unexpectedly.

As I have mentioned numerous times in my post, one way I used to overcome my fears and phobias is that I force myself to face this fears and phobia with the hope that I'm going to challenge it and stop getting scared or stop generating phobias whenever this my fears and phobia comes across me again.

Another funny way I used to overcome my fears is that I have this mentality that I am mentally a Viking and as you all know Vikings are strong and they don't give up or get scared of anything, soldier for whenever a reason for me to get scared of phobia comes across my way. I call myself a Viking and sincerely this motivates me because anytime I call myself a Viking I remember Vikings don't get scared.

Also this is another general way I use to overcome my fears and my phobias, while growing up the society embedded some tough knowledge like men don't get scared only we come men do give up or run from their fears and phobias. This alone is another inspirational quote I used to motivate myself whenever I come across my fear or any of my phobias.

In conclusion phobias are very natural stuff to have so I don't expect you to get depressed or turn out to be sad because you are experiencing some awkward or uniquely designed phobias, the only thing is that you have to find a way to fight this fears and phobias.

I am using this opportunity to invite @yancar @lirvic @simonnwigwe to participate