"Fear is how i fall....confusing what is real".No these lines are not by me,neither have I the experience nor talent for such wise one-liners.These lines are taken from the song "crawling" by Linkin park,I simply love that band,they've a message to convey in every composition.
Fear,that powerful of all emotions is not alien to anyone amongst us,we all have in one way or other confronted fear in it's various manifestations.But why do we fear?Is it really worth it?
Some wise man did say "the tragedy of life is...the strongest of our desires and biggest of our nightmares are almost same ,in the sense that they never are realized"
Yet we spend most of our worthy time in fear.In fear of deeds of our past & in fear of our future.Very rarely do we live in the present ,we keep swinging between past and future.The question is:Why do we fear? and What do we fear?
Fear is in-built in humans ,we probably cant do without it,but courage is not absence of fear but the will-power to carry on , in spite of fear.I assume we fear because we are "ignorant",we fear because we do not understand things properly....we fear because we are too afraid to abandon fear itself.We fear snakes because we are ignorant of the fact that unless disturbed,a snake does not attack.We fear failing in exams because we see the difficult path but not the chance to better ourselves, we fear losing our property because we donot understand that being materialistic never satisfied anyone.
Now comes the question:What? i.e What do we fear exactly?What I have learnt from my limited experience in life is that we fear "consequences",in more crude words we fear the future.
Imagine what we could have accomplished, had we not stepped back in fear of consequences.My father tells me "try to do...what you fear the most".Yes i agree that we cant get all things we TRY for ,but surely enough we cant get anything if we donot TRY at all.
So next time ,just go n do it...go and start a new project that you were holding back in fear of failure, go and stand up against what you think is wrong....go and confess your feelings to the person you care for, the feelings that you hid in your heart and never brought to lips due to fear of rejection.We may not succeed...but in the end , we feel less burdened ,much lighter .
Fear clouds the mind,it doesnot allow right decisions at right time and right place.While we shed our fear...we overtly simplify our own lives.
"Fear always springs from ignorance."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
SOUMYA DARSHAN JENA
