My greatest fear



Johnny wake up! Something is moving in the room!! It’s dark in here, can you please turn the light on. I can't! The power went off! What’s that sound? Oh my God.

According to Wikipedia Fear is a feeling induced by perceived danger. It is also a strong emotion induced by anticipated danger. Fear is normal and it’s like a shield designed to protect us humans from perceived danger. It’s often directed towards a situation or objects that don’t necessarily pose a real danger.

Phobia is often termed as an irrational fear towards a situation, living creature, object, etc. It’s being termed as' irrational' because people find it unreasonable. Take for example xanthophobia, the fear of yellow colour. People with xanthophobia fear anything yellow including the Sun. Others include coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, turophobia, the fear of Cheese and so on. Sometimes these fears are seen as anxiety disorders.

Nevertheless that’s just an introduction. I know we all have our fears, it might be the fear of losing something precious to you, the fear of letting go, the fear of rejection from the person you loved most, the fear of not meeting up to peoples expectation of you, the fear of telling the truth to your spouse and so on. We all have those and we keep on trying hard to avert or derail any situation that will allow these fears to manifest.

I have many fears like you, even though we all live in the same world but are exposed to different situations and environments that shapes our moods and emotions. Amidst all my fears, there is this one thing I fear most i.e. 'The fear of doing nothing'.

 This fear has empowered me to think, to meditate, to work and to explore. Doing nothing scares me, because I know when I am doing nothing, nothing happens. I can't do nothing and expect something, I can't do nothing and invent something, and I can't do nothing and expect a change.

This world is driven by people who do something. Time is precious and we are not going to live forever. To me, every moment counts because no one knows tomorrow. Please do something today don’t stay idle because you can be the greatest inventor or explorer in the history of mankind.

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