Love Story

If someone were to be locked in a small closet without any source of light, they may become scared of both darkness and of small places where they feel trapped or limited from moving to a certain extent. If someone is being physically or mentally abused over and over again by a particular person, then they may tend to slowly come to grow a grudge or possible hatred towards the person that hurts them. If someone is a young child and obviously is too little and naive to understand that they are not supposed to ever run with a pair a scissors in their hands, then they may end up being scared of sharp objects because of the fact that they ended up hurting themselves while running with a pair of dangerous scissors. There are many different, various, and individual people that happen to be very frightened of an extremely large variety of different living things and non-living things. Fear can very well have a major factor in preventing or slowing the progress of a person from doing something that could possibly result in benefiting, changing, or affecting their life for what would be best for them in the final outcome. Since T. S. Eliot happened to be a normal human being, just like everyone else on this earth, he had to have a fear all of his own. T. S. Eliot’s fear was to be rejected by all of his generation’s society. During the time that he was on the planet Earth, T. S. Eliot also had a reasonable excuse for fearing extreme rejection and denial of his new ideas because of the generation that he had been unfortunate to be placed in. Throughout that specific time era, many different people who had wanted and wished about letting their ideas be publicly stated and be possibly accepted was generally considered as an outrageous task and request to be even trying to think and especially ask. With the fear of being harshly, abruptly, and ridiculously rejected by his fellow society members, T. S. Eliot gave fear the opportunity and permission to place certain restraints on exactly he could say around other people of his time.
T. S. Eliot was placed in a time period where new ideas, thoughts, or inventions simply were not accepted with open arms. Since this indeed can be considered as a true and reliable fact, T. S. Eliot resulted in growing a gigantic fear of being rejected by all of fellow human beings that he came to live amongst. Throughout this poem, T. S. Eliot writes about this certain fear he has. “Do I dare disturb the universe?” (Eliot, 45-46) T. S. Eliot did not want to ruin the process of learning that was already in effect with the new amount of knowledge, ideas, and thoughts that he had to offer. T. S. Eliot said, “ with a bald spot in the middle of my hair.” T. S. Eliot believed that he would not accumulate a very large or even a small amount of people to listen to and accept his newly found ideas. He did not contain the amount of courage and self-confidence to try and talk a chance of putting himself out there in fear of rejection. Since did not have the pleasure of having someone to encourage him to take a risk in life, and he was not confident in his own self, T. S. Eliot did not have the opportunity to put himself out on the line and take a chance with rejection.

With the fear of being harshly, abruptly, and ridiculously rejected by his fellow society members, T. S. Eliot gave fear the opportunity and permission to place certain restraints on exactly he could say around other people of his time. Even though T. S. Eliot may have to have dealt with a large amount of fear of rejection, and this great amount happened to slowly decrease over time, the presence of fear itself will never ever truly disappear as a whole. It will always linger among every single human being that happens to inhabit this earth.