Sunday 25 January 2015


FEAR.

From a sudden loud bang, to that unexpected soft touch on the shoulder from behind, we respond with a shudder or begin a run only to stop and laugh it off or run harder still. This is how l have come to understand how much peace and tranquility we can use(and so deserve) that we don't really know. We detest things that disturb our peace-private or communal. Things like fear of the unknown.

Fear really tells us how much there is within (and with) us that we need to protect. This is why we can be the same ones to turn the page from being the vanquished to the conquerors only when we can learn to turn the knob right.

I ever saw a cobra (we were chasing) turned round and began running in the opposite direction. You can tell who is running at this point-us. It is incredible.! A frightened animal just a while ago, suddenly realises something and changes from being ruled by fear into showing the same intention the pursuers had. The result was that we all fled in several directions and that was how the cobra lost us. Back home the laughter was deafening as we tried to explain how she did it. Ever since, our respect for cobra grew yarn by yarn. We have absolutely no intention of chasing one soon. It dawned on me after, how fear can be a real source of strength itself.

Fear is, and would always be part of us. Not to fear is to know it all. But how many times have we faced fear and saw it vanished speedier than it came? Fear, fears us, unknown to us, and except we know what causes it, it stays and cowers us(victims) into submission, breeding subsequent deeper fears. Imagine how many uncertainties you got so worried over days and months ago that never even showed a sign of knocking at your gate, let alone your door. Circumstances that occur are rather bye-products of our bigger fears which defeats us anyway. We need to know that, as sure as the sun is to rise, so are our lives to rise and shine. When we wake and the sun does not shine, it is only temporary. Maybe clouds, maybe rain- all goods in themselves, depending on where we may stand.

Fear is good, fear is bad. It is left entirely to the description and manipulation of its victims to either gain or lose from it. But we can all get hold of our fears and roar in their faces like an angry dad would do a delinquent kid to put him right. Then fear would walk back or vanish into our minds and form no more-at least not the same kind.

But fearlessness is even a more trickier thing still, or is it? You don't walk to a raging fire and play a stunt by walking through because you are not afraid. You rather react to that fire by knowing how, weighing options and calculating what exactly is at stake. Then with that courage from the right-to-live, a miracle could leap out by your own counting or by Devine. So do not dance with fearlessness if fear is not in place yet. Let fear bring that fight to your door and see you overpower it because you are fierce yourself.

 If you must prepare, start by making roaches respect your 'play' rather than squeal and retreat like before, at almost every little insect. You would discover they respond to your stimulation and show they are more afraid of you than you are of them. Man rules everything including the unknown. Just in case you found out, give me a thumbs up from wherever, whenever for whatever, when fear is dead.

Fear is weak when is always our own creation.