FEAR it seems is a word not many like to associate themselves with. It is quite genuine a feeling id like to believe. While it many seem that as we grow up our childhood fears are laid to rest, more fears, newer ones are embedded into us! Ask a child what he is afraid of and he'll say ghosts, darkness, loneliness, etc. All that fairy tale stuff!! It is not always and not necessary that we shed most, let alone all, of our childhood fears as we grow up. We simply cant. Some fears have emotional reasoning behind them, the others continue to exist for lack of opportunity to dispel them, and thus they continue to be a part of life we've always heard but never felt.
The difference between the fears of a child and a grown up adult is that, while the child has no previous experience of trying to squash his fears away, the adult does! This can act in the favour and also against depending upon the success of the adult in trying to get rid of his fears. While the child has only his "ghosts" to deal with the adult has bigger issues. He knows what it is like to fail, he knows the cost of failing whatever he's engaged into currently, the child does not. Then there is constant pressure to succeed at giving a better opportunity to his/her children than what he had. The fear here is of FAILING. Thats perhaps one of the beauty of being a child, they've just no tasted failure, an adult might have over and over again!!
Our greatest fears lie in loosing that thing that we aspire the most. Thats why loosing loved ones is so hard, thats why failing is so hard, its not the fact that we failed, its the fact that we've lost an opportunity to take something we've wanted, something we've always desired the most has slipped out of our hands, something, someone. These things happen to everyone, everyone experiences these fears atleast once a lifetime, its a given.
Then is overcoming these fears our greatest hurdle or is it these fears themselves? For me, our greatest hurdle is neither of them. Our greatest hurdle lies in our ability to rise, not beyond everyone else, but as much as we can. But, how do we know how much we can rise? Simple, keep trying, forever!!Ironically, our greatest hurdle lies in our ability to have faith in ourselves, that we can tackle every obstacle!!Once we are done with a little dose on self-belief then we can try and face the problems, then once we believe that we are self-sufficient then we can bolden up to our greatest fears. Our fears are a manifestation of our beliefs about our abilities. So for me the best way to overcome them is to assess ourselves thoroughly and then gear up!!
Theres no running away from our fears, no hiding either. The only way to escape them is to have them and experience our powers.Lions don't become the king of the jungle unless they've fought another male for a territorial advantage. Someones gotta lose in that fight but the winner knows his ability forever! Thats the beauty of facing our fears, they show us what we are truly made up of. Fears need not end or be finite, and why will they, neither are our abilities nor is our spirit. Even though our greatest fears might lie,besides others, in not being able to unlock our true potential or failing to see that light within us that exemplifies our spirit, our greatest challenge lies in rising up and not in preventing a fall.
This is what i think. Its not all that i think, but pretty much. Please let me know what u think by adding your precious comments!! Thank you!
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