We are afraid of the wrong things

"boy punished after doing wrong"

We are afraid of the wrong things because people are punished for doing wrong. In the punishment system, we are held responsible for our actions by being punished for doing things that are wrong. For example a criminal is treated as being responsible for having done the things that are especially wrong such as murdering or stealing.

 Being afraid of the wrong things can be linked with self- consciousness or fear for God. For example, if you steal  your self consciousness tells you that what you doing is wrong, unacceptable in the eyes of God. We know that if we persist doing wrong things we might result in jail, even die and  then face the hell of fire and damnation for the rest of eternity. Thus we have every reason to fear the things of the hellfire and damnation. Every human being is born afraid of the wrong things because in every person goodness is embedded, such that even hard core criminals freeze before doing something wrong. Before breaking into somebody's house or pull a trigger they freeze.

However, looking at things from both sides of the hand,  being afraid of the wrong things limit us from experiencing new things, it contain us into one straight forward way of living, 'a comfortable zone'.  The more we enjoy the comfort of our zone the less we productive and creative.

Furthermore, we are afraid of wrong things for good and bad reasons. Thus we must evaluate our reasons before considering doing anything.