The many shades of fear. . .
Many people have fallen victim to different kinds of fear and the havoc each brings with it. Many also have learnt to use fear as a very effective tool of exploitation and suppression on their victims. Fear is no doubt an unpleasant emotion that causes fright, uneasiness, alarm, horror, distress, and above all, fear depicts trouble or danger. Many gave in to certain wrong life decisions because of fear. . . whether love or business, whether relationship or life . . . When one’s sense of fear is activated, there’s no limit to what they can do or how far they can go to feel safe again. Fear is a wicked tool which many wicked people have used to mentally blackmail and enslave others to do their will.
However, if we open our minds, we’ll see that we are actually in a world so beautiful. The world is and will always remain what we see and make of it. It may not be an easy journey walking the path of this life, neither is it free of doubts and fears, but it could be a fun journey if we let it. . . There is the ability to laugh through everything even the hard times only if we constantly remind ourselves that nothing lasts forever, not the travails, not the doubts, the disappointments, frustrations or even life itself is permanent.
Each day speaks through our encounters, upgrades our experiences and unveils its mysteries through those secret thoughts that keep our minds active all through the day and even the night time. A positive day is the one that begins with good thoughts of hopeful possibilities not because it’s completely void of fear but because we are able to put it right where it belongs, but the other day, is the one that begins with pessimism. It has fear written all over it and such days clearly do not leave us in high spirit because we kill the hope in it even before it begins.
The weapon of fear is sometimes not something forged at us from the outside but from within our own minds and thoughts. The irony is that this kind of fear is hard to overcome because it is self impelled and you know what they say about an enemy within? It is easier to rebel against a foreign invader than the one right inside of your camp or territory.
Fear has been one of the major reasons a lot of people have given up life changing dreams, the reason many have died without even trying to push for their goals or beliefs. Fears is the reason many are still grounded when they are so gifted and should be doing great things. Many have lost confidence in living life because they aren’t sure if they will succeed or survive their fears.
Many potential multinational businesses died even before they could be born because the one who bore the vision or idea was too afraid to make a move and insist on it no matter where he or she had to start from. So fear becomes a detractor when we allow ourselves to be guzzled by it. Taking the leap of faith is the only way to overcome whatever shade of fear that might be confronting us.
