FEAR NOT

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Those who are into an adventure, have definitely beaten the fear and so find ‘it’- the adventure, as the most alluring moment of their life. Overcoming the fear, is the acceptance of the unpredictability. Once you acquire the courage to welcome the unknown, then anonymity flips into the world of thrill and excitement. We as humans have the keen aversion for this acceptance without considering in our mind that this might lead us into the ‘light’ which we are actually seeking for.

The infant does not know the joy of crawling and the one-year-old toddler does not know the delight of standing up and walking. Similarly, the older us are scared to take a plunge in our career or personal lives without judging the exhilarations it would bring to us once we take the step forward. The only synonymous notion among the above three instances is the ‘fear’- ‘what if’. What if ‘I’ fall down? What if ‘I’ am unable to get up again? What if ‘I’ get hurt? And while pondering ourselves within this ‘what if’, we never experience the rejoices that we would have earned if we had ignored the ‘fear’.

Whom to blame?

Whom to blame for manifesting this unreconciled perception inside our mind? Sometimes it is inculcated by the outer world and many at times it is made up by the thoughts whirling inside our brain. The five senses reflecting the various emotions and feelings are well imbibed in our inner self and with the considerable time spent on this earth, some of those emotions become dominant. And when the emotion of non-acceptance of incertitude weighs heavier, it can be defined as the ‘fear’.

The fear of doing the right, leads to some absurd decisions even though our conscience allows us not to do so. It is one of the most disastrous emotion beside anger, jealousy- to name a few. It eats us from within sometimes leading us to the darkness without our consciousness.

The subtle remedy would be to accept the ‘fear’ and the ‘uncertainty’.

Accept- it would make life better. The adventure we search in the difficult places outside, in the world, would be profoundly found inside us and us only, when we accelerate from the ‘Bhay’ (fear, in Sanskrit) se (to) ‘Abhay’ (fearless, in Sanskrit).

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