A Culture Of Fear - III. Write about a fear, not necessarily related to teaching that once controlled you, but no longer does. What caused you to confront that fear? What helped you get loose from it? What were the results? What did you learn?

Talking about my fears reminds me of when I studied primary school. When I was a child I studied in a place where only girls attended the school. When I studied the first grade at the end of that year my teachers gave me  the first place of my class and I felt happy, because I got  excellent grades and my  behavior was excellent too. Since then, I began to feel pressured both by my parents and by my teachers even my friends to be always the best student of the class as a consequence fear came over me. I was afraid of failing as a student, all the  time I felt stress,  It was  so much pressure to me  even I  began to have visual difficulties. I remember when I was in second grade along the  year I only got ten  in all my exams except one day I got eight on a math exam, and I started to cry because my teacher had told me: If you get a ten you are going to pass the year. For that reason I felt an enormous fear because I thought that  my parents and teachers were angry with me.

When I had the opportunity to participate in competences in school I was afraid of not being the winner for that reason sometimes I used to exaggerate the time spent studying. 

Years later when I had more awareness to my acts I had to face that fear, I spoke with people around me, and I expressed my feelings that made ​​me feel better because I could take my school activities in the appropriate manner. I began to better control my emotions, and I understood how to be a dedicated student  without exceed the limits.

As a result, my emotions were more balanced, and I could develop my activities naturally without the constant fear of being rejected by my school performance. 

I learned to deal with my academic activities and gradually find the right balance to not feel fear. 

Nowadays  I understand that in any situation we fail and sometimes we make mistakes but fear should not take us negatively instead we have the opportunity to learn from the experiences to overcome them and believe in ourselves is a way to deal with fears.