Saturday, September 5, 2009

All that is feared is not necessarily bad!

1 comment:

Anand Sivaraman said...

This can be clearly explained by taking a few examples.

For instance, if a person has the fear of darkness, it is not necessary that darkness is bad. A person who fears failure in examinations may have frustrations as to why examinations exist. This is making examinations bad according to him due to his inability to perform well. Overcoming the fear is what has to be focussed upon rather than making the subject of our fear BAD.

Clearer still, Just like the story that we learnt in our kindergarten schooling. The fox that could not reach the grapes consoled itself by saying that they are sour. Here, the fear may be considered as the fear of ridicule that the fox might have thought he had to face when he could not reach the grapes even after several attempts. In this case, the fear of ridicule made the grapes bad. But nobody actually knows as none have tasted them yet....

Im not sure if this was relevant enough, but hope it helps in making the point a little more clear.