“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”― Veronica Roth
We all live in fear of something..
Fear of ghosts, spiders, vampires, heights,
werewolves, depths, dark, insects, ants,
Fear of ex-girlfriends, ex-boyfriends, ex-lovers,
ex-in-laws, current in-laws,
Fear of failure, intimacy, sorrow, calamities, extra work right before you leave office for the day,
Fear of strangers, strangers with weird physical
abnormalities, strangers with inappropriate obsession with twilight characters,
Fear of, well, anybody with an inappropriate
obsession to do anything with twilight,
(Clearly, I have an aversion to twilight a tad
too much!)
Fear of wealth – having too less of it, and if
you have some fear of losing all of it,
Fear of thunder,
Fear of lightning,
Fear of your folks finding out the pile of nasty
stuff you did in past that they don’t know of yet!
Etc etc..
The list seems to go on forever!!
You always notice a little nervous sneer, breathlessness,
cold skin, goose bumps, shivering, hands and feet doing things out of one’s
control or a rich shade of red in faces of people whenever they feel they are
in harm’s way.
A similar shade of color, expressions and etc symptoms
are seen in people when they are exulted, or well, in love.
But neither love nor ecstasy really exists do
they?
They are all just things resulting from our
hyper-active imagination or by sheer chemical play of hormones.
What makes fear any different from these
emotions?
Maybe what we fear the most in life is just
another part of our being telling us that there is something going on
outside/inside of us that we have to stand up and take notice of.
Maybe it is just another biological alarm-point
for us, like getting a fever or wanting to throw up etc.
Only these alarms go off only inside out heads.
And we control our mind to a large extent. So we
can very well mold this fear to serve our needs.
Because you see, being fearless is stupid and a
blatant lie.
Fear is actually good. It makes you perform
better, makes you put your best foot forward.
You think better and clearer when you feel your
own butt is at stake!
You see.. Greed for success can make you successful
only to an extent, but fear of failure is the thing that drives you all the way
to the top!!
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