Death, loss, and spiders seem to be common.
But there really is one thing nearly everyone fears.
It is the unknown.
It is within death, loss, and many other things like this.
Humans have a great need, for some reason, to know things.
And what we do not know, we have no experience going into.
After death, we do not know what comes; thus we fear it.
When we lose something, we do not know where it is; thus we are afraid to lose.
A fear of spiders seems more irregular/irrational, but if you think about the fact that you don't know a good many things about the spider (for one, what it is thinking), the fear of the unknown strikes again.
And the worst part-we have no word for a fear of the unknown...
Xenophobia is the closest thing I can find, and it applies to a fear of foreigners more than a fear of the unknown...
We must learn to overcome a fear of the unknown.
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