Fears

As a therapist , I have come across several people who have an hidden fear in them . One may ask what is this fear about . This fear refers to not living up to one’s expectation . The fear of loosing in life . One may be afraid of heights , insects , ghosts , etc but if one tries to look back at their experience they may feel it was nothing .

Life is kind of like an adventure . Everyone has some sort of fear in them which is just a feeling. A phase of life . I clearly remember my childhood days . Everytime I saw a pest , I would start yelling and ended up with the whole neighborhood consoling me . When I look back now , I laugh at myself . When my patients ask me that how I am so jovial and carefree , I tell them that it was what I was supposed to be , but frankly speaking that is not the truth . I have one fear in life . The fear of losing myself . Packed up in a daily schedule is quite monotonous . One is so engrossed in work , they hardly find time for themselves and tend to loose the person who they were . That was one reason I choose my career as a therapist . It gave me time to think and at the same time do my work , help people. When at times I feel down , I try to communicate with myself and I am back to the normal me . Being myself does not mean to be the same person I was throughout life . It means to not loose originality of the soul . Every morning I wake up is a new day . A day to improve myself . I remind my patients that fears are a passing phase of life . What one finds scary one day may seem normal to the same person the next day .

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind . What it takes is to get over it .

“Courage is not the absence of fear , but the triumph over it . The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid , but he who conquers that fear .”- Nelson Mandela