She looked at the bridge; she stared at her dream right in
its face. Her heart leapt..Go..go...go. What stopped her was something no one
can see, no one can smell or touch. It was something which the river down below
mocked at. It was the “fear”. The fear of the unknown; the fear of the worst.
The fear that grips you and makes your destination look tough when it’s right
there in front of you. When all you have to do is run across, the fear clings
on to you and makes the simplest of things look like the toughest hurdles of
life.
We all are faced with such situations day in and day out. It
is not the lack of capability, or the circumstances or the confidence that
hinders us. It is plain and simple fear which stops us from getting what we
want. A self constructed illusion of the mind that intoxicates us and numbs our
faculties and chills us to the bone. Fear
is nothing but a delusionary state of mind which concocts negative instances in
our head and makes them seemingly real. It chokes our sensibility and makes us
stiff and nervous. Just spare a moment to think, if you eliminate this devil
called Fear from you mind, getting to your dreams seems to be the most natural
thing.
What lay between the girl and her dream was a bridge. A
simple harmless bridge. All she had to do was cross it but the mind was seized
with fear. The fear of toppling over, the fear of the bridge collapsing, the
fear of the worst created an environment in which the destination seemed farfetched.
It’s true that the toughest battle you fight is with
yourself and the most powerful enemy you will ever face will be your own fear. Hence
where the mind is without fear..is a place unknown to me.
