Hello everyone. This will be my initial post on this blog so please bear with me. As the title of my blog shows, I will be discussing things about day-to-day life which may involve politics, jobs, opportunities, poverty, injustice, basics, and so on. Quite a wide topic right? But that’s how it is… LIFE, as we know it.
To begin with, I will start with the idea of being new. What is it that we fear when we are new to something? It is the Fear of Rejection. Rejection comes in to mind for many of us. The fear itself limits us to do freely the things we want to express. At the start we feel excited and with a lot of foresight. But as time draws near, we start thinking about the negative aspects of the idea. The “what ifs?” start to cram up our mind crowding the initially good foresight that we have. We now start to “censor” ourselves. We succumb to pressure as we try to fight it out. But in reality, there is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Now what exactly do we need to fight this fear. I’ll start right away before I bore you guys to death.
For some of us, we tend to forget what we really need to fight the fear. We normally focus on what we want rather than knowing what we really need. Basically what we need is support to increase our self confidence. Financial, spiritual and emotional support are what we need to face our fears, to face a challenge. Never put into mind that we can do things on our own. We can’t and we never will. Don’t fight off the support being given because it will only make matters worse. We just might lose not only our current endeavor but our loved ones as well. You’re kidding yourself that you don’t need anything at all to accomplish things. But during the course, we remember where we came from, we remember our past, we remember our loved ones and we remember what we came for. Although we may be using our own resources, but the spiritual and emotional strength will come from our loved ones, encouragement from our friends, from all of them, their prayers.
Some of you may prove me wrong. That you are independent and does not need anyone to do things. They fear nothing as they claim. But in reality, they have forgotten the true essence of success. And that is celebrating with your loved ones and true friends. Yes, you can succeed in your task but end up alone. No one to celebrate it with. That makes it a failure. That is what we really should fear about.
Face the fear of life my friends but never face it alone. You may conquer a challenge alone but in the end, it is incomplete. It may be conquered, but you fail the true essence of success without our loved ones. Focus our challenges for our loved ones. You may fail but they’ll bring you up until you succeed. Alone, when you fail, nobody will pick you up. You can stand up on your own but the feeling of being alone and no one to give you strength will just pull you back down again. It will drain you just the same.
Another technique to face the fear is to have a bigger picture of regretting the things you did not do due to the fear of rejection. Our inhibitions will make us regret much later, when its utterly too late for us to do anything at all. We should have listened to our friends, we should accepted our loved ones support, we should have taken the step when there was a chance. All but gone to waste because we didn’t do a thing when there was time, when there was support, when there was the chance.
Face the fear. Face it with the strength and support from your friends and loved ones. With them at your back, you may fail, but they’ll catch you when you fall, put you back up, and tell you “You can do it!“, and you will eventually. Do it while you have the chance. Do it while you have the support. Do it… while you still can. That is LIFE… as We Know It.
