the four letter word

Singaporeans FEAR

• change (of jobs, of environment)
  
• higher authority
• bigger countries
• the gahmen
• taking risks
• not having enough money
  
• believing that they can make a difference
• getting into trouble
• losing things essential to basic living (jobs, property, money, reputation, 'face')
• being different
• themselves

Fear imprisons; faith liberates; fear paralyzes; faith empowers; fear disheartens; faith encourages; fear sickens; faith heals; fear makes useless; faith makes serviceable.

-- Harry Emerson Fosdick.