Trepidation
Fear is definitely an unpleasant emotion. It is the
home for the man who dreads anything on earth. With everything on stake how can
a person accompany goodness within oneself? The darkness in the mind is fear;
the bright unreachable light is fear, the forbidden fruit is fear, every denial
is fear and all that inaccessible thought is also fear. Fear is to be discarded
they say. It is that which provokes us to leave the world of challenge. Every
breath is indebted to this unholy fear. We are born in fear and die with it.
Why is this apprehension always like a shadow?
Basically I feel that fear is a patterned disorder or
so to say a muddled course. Everything irrespective of its type takes refuge in
this emotion. Fear is a disgrace for the valiant, a shield for a simple man, a
weapon for a religious priest and a contractual obligation for a precarious
follower. It is a must for a deprived man and an option for the privileged one.
Thus, fear is all about a dark shadow in darkness. Now, how can we see a dark
shadow in the total absence of light? This dark shadow is beyond doubt a
conception of human mind. The mind has immense power to make things out of
nothing.
Fear is a refuge which harbor under the canopy of
negative emotions. We are constantly reminded to keep this feeling far away,
since it is unworthy. Winds of dreadful thought are followed by fear. We never
know when it did origin, how did it quietly creep into our minds, slowly
blackening our soul to death. We are told not to fear but taught to be fearful.
What a contradiction? We find fear omnipresent just as we are made to believe
the presence of God. Now the real challenge draws closer. Is the fear factor
really unworthy?
We fear the failure but the insight is that we love to
achieve. We fear the adversity and strive to win; win over circumstance, win
over people, win over ideologies and providence too. The race to make a mark is
because we fear to be lost in the crowd. We fear to be called as a defeatist.
On many occasion it is unquestionably fear which
provoke us to follow the right path of virtue, lest we may land up in vain. We
are undeniably obsessed to make a new move. Every little move we make is
because we fear the letdown syndrome. Fear is definitely an nonconstructive
feeling but has the worth to help people see the radiance of victory. The fear
of losing life make people rational, the fear of losing friends make people
warm, fear of conflict encourages tranquility, fear of death make people
discover the significance of existence, fear of drought emancipates life. The
fear nestled in the heart is the gateway to a refined life.
So fear can be ordained as a barbed stick which is not
a delight to hold onto but indeed serves the purpose of a fence.
TANNI BOSE
