From Childhood Myths to Real-World Exploration: Conquering Fear and...

Since childhood, we hear about many things and we believe some things without investigating and we take it as the truth. Many such incidents keep happening around us which we take as the truth and we never worry about whether it is true or not and neither did we ever try to search for anything. Well, many of our elders used to tell us many stories, some of which were true and some were lies, but whatever they used to tell us, we used to take it at face value. Earlier times were different, earlier we did not have resources to verify things, but now whatever you search for, you will find some video or some information about everything because, with time, things keep on changing for humans and people want they get answers to their questions and they can know more and more about things.

Well, many conspiracy theories are famous all over the world like the Illuminati, Area 51 and the existence of aliens and there are many more mysteries like the pyramids were built by aliens. Many things come under conspiracy theory for which there is no proof but due to lack of any proof, people believe in these things. Many people have tried to prove it false or find out its reality and many people have given their false stories but still no such proof has been found which people can call true or based on which they can be convinced or any new theory can be made. Well, when we are young, whatever our elders tell us, we believe in all those things and there are some things that our elders have told us to scare us and we have started believing them to be true but until we do not verify those things ourselves or I should say we do not investigate those things ourselves, we consider those things to be true.

There was an old ruin in our village, it was closed for many years because probably the people who used to live there earlier had left it and gone somewhere else and that house was a little away from the village due to which it soon started turning into ruins but whenever we used to go there to play, our family members used to stop us from going there and used to say that don't go there, children get scared after going there, it is not good there and they used to say a lot of other things so that we could avoid going there in that ruin, I don't know why they used to stop us, maybe they were scared that if we go in that ruin, it is already broken if we go inside it, we might get hurt, maybe they want to save us from any harm.

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Often the family members take a lot of care of the small children and want to keep them safe. Nowadays this thing has increased a lot. Earlier it was not so much and now crime is increasing a lot, so people should be more cautious. Till I was not educated, I and my other brothers, I should say all the children of the village, used to believe all these things to be true and we did not even go near the house, but as we started growing up, everyone has a little passion and curiosity to explore things and find out about things and we think what will happen if we go inside it, then we get a little scared, but believe me, when we overcome our fear and when we face the reality, then there is a different kind of joy after that. The same thing happened with me and some other children when we decided to go to that old house. Initially, we were all scared because we had never thought of such a thing before and neither had any of us been there before, so we were a little scared.

We had planned to go there during the day because it used to be very dark at night and in such a situation, the family members could get worried. So, we planned to go during the day because there is some light during the day and in such a situation things are visible clearly. So, when we went there and explored the house, we saw that a lot of things were broken there, especially the roof and the walls and a lot of old things were lying there and we also found some old photographs of the village, very old. Earlier, people used to collect photographs now they fill up the storage of mobile phones, but albums used to be made earlier.

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When we were there, we were a little scared because we had not gone there before and as we had been hearing a lot of things since childhood, we were quite scared of that thing as well but we were also worried about the animals there because that house had been abandoned for a long time, so there could have been snakes or any other wild animals there, we were scared of this as well but we explored things with a little caution and we were together because there could have been some danger in going separately and when we explored that place and when we came out, we felt very happy and we were looking at each other's faces and laughing, maybe we were happy with the fact that nothing has happened here, there is nothing there.

We have seen that often our elders tell many stories to small children so that they can convince them or scare them, but sometimes even such small incidents scare people a lot and they stay with them for life. So we should keep in mind that the things we are telling our children, are scaring them too much. Some people don't do this, but some people get very scared and this fear stays with them for life, which affects their life a lot. So even if we want to keep children safe, we should not tell them so many lies that it affects their lives or they have to face some problems in future. Yes, there are many conspiracies. If you are also interested in exploring or recording, then you can do it because you are free. You can do research. You can read research papers and also pay attention to other people's research and share your thoughts. It is possible that some solution may come out like we have, you may also find some solution.