Hi everyone!
To those who knew that I embarked on an epic journey last year will be happy to know that I have completed phase uno of it!
But actually I face a bigger challenge than before. More twists and turns and much more on stake. This time, it will not be battle agianst others, but a quest to find myself.
YES TO FIND MYSELF. If this was a movie it would be a sequel where the hero loses his way in his quest to be great and has to find himself, to find inner peace.
Well, so far I believe the most prominent thing now is to start by finding my emotions. I seem to have lost them on the way. Where they are, I am not too sure. But I will look for them. ;)
Many of you may say why bother to find some of them? Like sadness or anger or even fear? They cause nothing but harm and pain. Sometimes we wish for the feeling to disappear, I can tell you this from experience. The worst, and I mean absolute worst feeling in the world in nothingness, hollowness, feeling absolutely nothing. You will feel no joy, no sadness, no fear. You will also feel no drive, no care, no will. You will be an empty shell with only your mind to tell you what to do.
So appreciate your feelings now.
Yes, do not let them control you, but you should not control them either. They should be part of you and you should listen and understand them, and they will do the same.
Well, now back to my journey. So I started out finding my first emotion, FEAR. I can tell you the day was horrible when I found it. He hit me like a wave so massive I could hardly breathe. His grip was so tight it was like an anaconda wrapping itself around me. His touch was so cold that even under the afternoon sun, I was shivering.
But as I talked to him, (yes I talk to myself) I realised why we are given fear. He is not there to torment us or to keep us from doing things that we want to do. Have you ever experienced wanting to do something but suddenly in your mind you ask yourself "what if...?" and then you feel scared that it might come true and stop doing it?
Well I learnt that it is actually ok to be afraid. Once a small boy asked his father, "Daddy, why do we fear?"
The dad replied, "It is so that we may overcome it and have the drive and will to carry on. It is the reason why we live. We live everyday because we fear of death. We make use of our life because we fear that we might regret our actions. Fear gives us the reason why we do anything in our lives."
They say that the opposite of fear is courage. But I believe that fear and courage are one and the same. Like I always say, opposites have more in common than we realise. To have courage is to overcome your fear. To fear is to overwhelm your courage. Thus, fear and courage exist inter-dependent of each other. One cannot live without the other.
The trinity of Fear and Courage is Will. To understand the nature of fear and courage will mean that you will have understand the nature of will. We cannot have will if we do not fear or do not stand up against our fear. It is within our very essence to choose to will. The reason why we were given adreanalien was to be able to feel fear and overcome it. We were given the power of will and it is fear and courage that drives it.
So stop running away from fear as you will be running away from courage and will as well. It is normal for us to fear and we have the power to overcome it and be more than we think we are. Fear gives us our drive and our purpose in doing many things.
"Fear may lead to anger, but it can also lead to courage"
To those who knew that I embarked on an epic journey last year will be happy to know that I have completed phase uno of it!
But actually I face a bigger challenge than before. More twists and turns and much more on stake. This time, it will not be battle agianst others, but a quest to find myself.
YES TO FIND MYSELF. If this was a movie it would be a sequel where the hero loses his way in his quest to be great and has to find himself, to find inner peace.
Well, so far I believe the most prominent thing now is to start by finding my emotions. I seem to have lost them on the way. Where they are, I am not too sure. But I will look for them. ;)
Many of you may say why bother to find some of them? Like sadness or anger or even fear? They cause nothing but harm and pain. Sometimes we wish for the feeling to disappear, I can tell you this from experience. The worst, and I mean absolute worst feeling in the world in nothingness, hollowness, feeling absolutely nothing. You will feel no joy, no sadness, no fear. You will also feel no drive, no care, no will. You will be an empty shell with only your mind to tell you what to do.
So appreciate your feelings now.
Yes, do not let them control you, but you should not control them either. They should be part of you and you should listen and understand them, and they will do the same.
Well, now back to my journey. So I started out finding my first emotion, FEAR. I can tell you the day was horrible when I found it. He hit me like a wave so massive I could hardly breathe. His grip was so tight it was like an anaconda wrapping itself around me. His touch was so cold that even under the afternoon sun, I was shivering.
But as I talked to him, (yes I talk to myself) I realised why we are given fear. He is not there to torment us or to keep us from doing things that we want to do. Have you ever experienced wanting to do something but suddenly in your mind you ask yourself "what if...?" and then you feel scared that it might come true and stop doing it?
Well I learnt that it is actually ok to be afraid. Once a small boy asked his father, "Daddy, why do we fear?"
The dad replied, "It is so that we may overcome it and have the drive and will to carry on. It is the reason why we live. We live everyday because we fear of death. We make use of our life because we fear that we might regret our actions. Fear gives us the reason why we do anything in our lives."
They say that the opposite of fear is courage. But I believe that fear and courage are one and the same. Like I always say, opposites have more in common than we realise. To have courage is to overcome your fear. To fear is to overwhelm your courage. Thus, fear and courage exist inter-dependent of each other. One cannot live without the other.
The trinity of Fear and Courage is Will. To understand the nature of fear and courage will mean that you will have understand the nature of will. We cannot have will if we do not fear or do not stand up against our fear. It is within our very essence to choose to will. The reason why we were given adreanalien was to be able to feel fear and overcome it. We were given the power of will and it is fear and courage that drives it.
So stop running away from fear as you will be running away from courage and will as well. It is normal for us to fear and we have the power to overcome it and be more than we think we are. Fear gives us our drive and our purpose in doing many things.
"Fear may lead to anger, but it can also lead to courage"
