Everyone has something they dislike about themselves, whether it be a lack of confidence or a tendency to procrastinate, but it could also be fear. Fear is something that everyone has experienced at some time or another, young or old, but being plagued by fear is another story completely. Fear is something that has controlled my whole life. That is why I have chosen the letter F as my scarlet letter; fear.
I’m afraid of most things, and I always have been. As a child, my fears were confined to the normal childish things like monsters in the closet or being in the dark. But something was different about my fears because, as I got older, they didn’t go away. I used to try to scare my fears away by reading scary stories and watching movies, but I still can’t sleep with the closet door open. Fear can have many different forms, it can come from a place of mental unrest or physical harm and past experiences. For me, it just happens to be all of the above.
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I’ve always been really good at school, but I’m deathly afraid of failing at it. Failure is something I’ve always been afraid of, from the time I was a child until even now. I’m terrified of failing at school and letting down my family, my teachers, and myself. I put a lot of pressure on myself to have straight A’s and spend hours studying every night. This year I received the lowest grade I’ve ever had and cried about it off and on for hours. I place so much pressure on myself to succeed at school that seeing that I had a 79% in chemistry made me feel