Fear is Temporary and Regret is Forever

I love to read books which are mostly related to personal development and motivation and I give lot of importance not only to the knowledge from books and personal life, but also putting those into practice. If I ever come across a new way of simplifying a thing or a tip that I can use, I will try to implement those as soon as possible or at my earliest convenience. All these knowledge and experience gives me an opportunity to keep on improving my skills and knowledge. This will also help me to shape up my personality and character.

During my childhood, I always used to read 'Competition Success Review' magazines, a personality development journal. This magazine contains many article of which one article was about ‘Improve your personality'. I used to read these articles with lot of interest and which were mainly focused on developing leadership skills and also how to overcome your personal weaknesses. One such article I read was how you can overcome with your own fear, the suggestion given was: To overcome with your fear is to do exactly the things which you fear the most. This suggestion has impacted me so much in my life, or I can say it got stuck in my mind, that I still follow it whenever I get fear of anything.

There was an episode, which took courage on my part to put this idea into practice and that incident was “Participating in debate”. During my earlier school days there was a teacher who involved all students in different groups, to participate in debate and discuss about pros and cons on a given topic. I knew that I can do well in debate if I am arguing with my friends or close ones, as we know that most of us are open with some people and can candidly speak in front of them. But, here I was facing a problem, as I have to discuss my opinions in front of all students. I was feared about how I could articulate my thoughts nicely, though I was very familiar and confident about the topic “Women power in Society”. I knew that I had plenty of views to discuss on this topic but I was scared what if other students doesn’t like my views or how strongly I can put my thoughts into words which started making me feels nervous and later feared. So suddenly this fear suggestion came in my mind which I read in an article and thought I should overcome my weakness of fear and participate in a debate. So students along with the teacher were talking on this topic weather women have a power in society or not and if yes how much and suddenly that topic converted into huge debate. Not being an enthusiast first I thought I should not involve in too much discussion as I was having little bit fear though I was having a good knowledge about that topic, but still I thought I should listen others points . But I wanted to take the opportunity to overcome my fear. And once I started giving my view, everyone started getting agreeing on my point which started giving me more confident and I was glad when I finished my part. Though I didn't win any prize in that discussion but I have my personal prize to cherish and also got appreciation from my teacher for well behaving and mentioning some good points during discussion. Therefore by doing this I went through my own emotions to overcome my weakness. To some extent it helped me to overcome my fear and improve my confidence that I can certainly take up difficult challenges. And after this incident there were many other opportunities came in my life where I had to discuss in front of all studentss or people and now I can easily discuss my point without any hesitation. There are many other incidents which took place in my life and I always followed this suggestion and now I am very well confident that I can face and resolve any fear or challenges in my life. In my opinion fear is one of the worst enemies that can play confusion with our mind and in that situation we all need to develop our strategy and strength to overcome this.

Finally to end this topic, I would quote, which I always believe, that “fear is always temporary and if you don’t take any step to overcome with your own fear sooner or later you will regret forever”. So take a step to overcome with your own fear no matter how big or small it is, once you have made in your mind and gain a strength that you can do it and no one can stop me from doing it, you should keep on trying it as there is no harm in trying even if there is lot of risks involved; face it, instead of thinking about alternatives. You should overcome your fear and as I say “Fear is Temporary, Regret is forever”.