Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Fear Factor

Fear is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed,happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbeliefand disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it withlittle trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for yu. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread.
Fear next turns fully to your body,which is already aware that something terrily wrong is going on. Already your lungshave flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake. Now your tounguedrops dead like a opossum, while your jaws begins to gallop on the spot. Your ears go deaf. Your muscles begin to shiver as if they had malaria and your knees to shake as though they were dancing. Your heart strains so hard, while your sphincter relaxes too much. And so with the rest of your body. Every part of you, in the manner most suited to it, fallsapart. Only your eyes work well. They always pay proper attention to fear.

2 comments:

vijay said...

You are quite right that fear is your true enemy. Fear will always haunt you endlessly and it can not let you live happily. The fear tracks your every step and threatens you by inducing doubts in your decision making abilities resulting into an indecisive nature.

The only remedy to fight with fear and emerge out as a winner is the ability to have trust in yourself. If you have faith in your capabilities, no fear can overcome you. Once make a decision, go for it fearlessly and you will see the results. It is obvious that sometimes we can make wrong decisions but it is much better option than having doubts on almost every decision due to the fear. Once we shed away the fear from our mind and start trusting on our capabilities there is no way that it would come to us again.

Fear also has its weaknesses. It just attacks the mindset of weak and doubtful people who have a little or have no trust on their capabilities. So just trust on your capabilities and fear the fear instead of fearing from fear.

NO FEAR!

Sapphire said...

wow vijay, very gud reply. quite similar to my thoughts. I was writing now on something realted to the decison making ability. :) may be ll my nxt post here.