Humanity – Why You Are Insecure!

Because every single one you will eventually die. It is that simple – your time is limited, therefore, the insecurity is the instinctive reminder you are losing valuable time trying to get to that One Thing.

In this article, we will not discuss the merit of the One Thing that you are going after – as you and everyone else has the freewill to pursue your personal endeavor.

Before we get into reasons behind insecurity, it is important to distinguish insecurity and the lack of confidence.

Googling the definition of insecurity – “uncertainty or anxiety about oneself; lack of confidence”.

Googling the definition of confidence – “the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust”.

TheEngineer’s combined definition of insecurity and confidence –

Confidence is a nascent form of insecurity from within the “self”. Slowly and surely, depending on one’s chosen life path, insecurity will transform into the matured form of – or lacking of confidence.

An example of insecurity and confidence – a child stood on the table. He/she is insecure of the act of jumping off the table. The child jumped – insecurity is dissipated and the infantile form of confidence is seeded.

Now that you have a clear understanding of the relationship between insecurity and confidence (or lacking of) – let’s get focus on insecurity.

I have already given you the first fundamental foundation of reason why 100% of population is insecure – our time is limited.

It is very complicated for most of you to rationalize on this reason because it is outside of your five senses. Thus, we will focus on the sensory reasons – sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch.

The good news is most situations in life that brought on insecurity can be crushed with the simple five senses.

Let’s look at the first reason why you are insecure –

You are insecure because your basic five senses need more time to get comfortable with the One Thing.

For example, you would like to participate in the Boston Marathon and have never run more than two miles in your life.

It is logical to start the training with 2 miles and slowly increase the conditioning to 26 miles.

Do you why the physical training is crucial for the actual participation in the Boston Marathon?

Have you ever witnessed a dramatic marathon finisher? He/she tumbled and or crawled to the finish line – his/her vision was blurred, the loud crowd was no longer heard, the air was smell-less, the saliva was taste-less and the ground was not felt.

The unprepared marathon runner five senses were disengaged from the brain as extreme emergencies – invaluable feedbacks as the result in lack of preparation.

Had the dramatic marathon finisher invested more times to train and condition his/her 5 senses to tolerate the increasing physical challenge as miles are being left behind – the insecurity at the onset of the marathon would not been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The insecurity at the onset of everything in life is expected – especially if the situation or endeavor is novel, new and outside the comfort zone of your basic five senses.

In this marathon example, the runner needs to devote more time for training and condition his/her five senses to get comfortable with distance.

The second reason why you are insecure –

You are insecure because you have failed at least once at the One Thing and your basic five senses are reminding you of the consequences.

I have never met a person who has never failed at anything in his life.

Failures are the essentials to the process of growing up from the child who was insecure about the first step to an entrepreneur who was about to change the world with his/her vision.

Insecurity at the One Thing after the last failure meant you have not invested enough time into more research and additional preparation to calm your basic five senses.

You basic five senses concluded that you are insane because you are doing exactly the same thing and expecting a different result – you can look up the definition of insanity for yourself.

To overcome the feeling of insecurity of the One Thing you have failed in the past, you must take more time to do more research and analyze the situation from a different perspective and go at it again with a better plan.

Without a new game plan in comparison to the last, you basic five senses will trigger the alarm from the experiencing of the last failure – with additional amplification.

The amplification is legit built-in necessity – time is limited and you are about to waste it at the One Thing with the exact same plan that had failed in the last execution.

The last reason why you are insecure –

You are insecure because to succeed at the One Thing it requires the collaboration with others.

This is much more challenging to overcome because your five basic senses must be trained and conditioned to dance with others’ five basic senses.

You and I are living in a communal society. As a result, many personal endeavors (many the One Things) are inspired from interrelationship – moreover, the plan and the eventual execution is required the cooperation of others.

For an example – the basic yet fundamentally critical in any definition of a successful life is having a family with the opportunity that leads to procreation.

Without taking science into consideration – no one in the entire world can have children without the cooperation from the opposite gender.

Another example – everyone needs certain amount of financial resource to support the building block of a society, the family. The massive amount of the financial resource has been structured and organized in such manner that required cooperation with others for the taking.

The person with the most sophisticated five senses will be able to dance/cooperate with others for the largest piece of the pie – in accordance to his/her level of sophistication.

The five basic senses that every one of you are wired since the beginning of your birth have not developed to the critical level of sophistication beyond the needs of your own survival.

As a result, if you are chasing after an interrelationship endeavor, it will be a challenge for your own basic five senses to cooperate with others – hence, insecurity arises.

When it comes to relationship, your basic five senses are very protective of you – it knows nothing of love. It knows nothing of right and wrong. It only knows of self-preservation.

This is not a philosophy – it is hardwired biological rule!

Again, your basic five senses need more time to accommodate the needs and desires of others beyond yourself – it needs to understand that the relationship is the boundary of the requirement.

Below is an illustration of all possible relationships you and I will have the opportunity to participate – the size of the defined relationship inferred the level of commitment required in time required for your five basic senses achieve the necessary comfort.

In summary – you are insecure because time on this earth is limited. Life is about progress toward the One Thing.

Progress brings on uncertainty and your basic five senses just need more time to embrace the next mile toward the One Thing.

Let’s play the Game of Life!