So, What are you afraid of ??

I wanted to write about this piece for a looong time. But, me being me, just didn't make up my lazy mind to do so. But, here I am.. unfolding all my thoughts through this wonderful medium of Blogging :)

We all fear something or the other, don't we ? There can be a whole lot of categorizations that can be made.. some of them, I will present it to you now., and the others, I would definitely want to hear from all of you guys out there :)

I will henceforth be considering both being fearful and being afraid as one. Just for the sake of making it easy for me to express things that are running in my head :)

Of late, I have seen people conquering their fears and their worst nightmares. People whom I know reasonably well. That makes me very happy and ask myself, what would I do in a situation like that? For example, I saw my colleagues, who are hydrophobic, jump into a river from a height of 45 feet. I saw my father, who lost his left thumb in a fateful accident last year, overcome his fear of riding bikes and ride it for an hour continuously. I saw a friend who was so insecure about life in general, make up his mind to do finally something about it and come out of the rut he had got into and now is a very happy man.

So, I asked myself this question, "what exactly are the things I am afraid of ?" . I then started to categorize fear. It can be fear of losing people or Job or being afraid of certain situations or of even common things like cockroaches n lizards :P

1. Am I afraid of losing my Family ? Would I be able to live without them?
- Yes, I am afraid. But yes, I can live without them and would not be very happy though for obvious reasons.

2. Am I afraid of losing my friends?
- No. I can be reasonably happy without friends. But as all of us know, friends do make our lives beautiful and mine is no exception :)

3. Am I afraid of losing my Job ?
- Nope. Not at all. As the dialogue goes in the movie 3 Idiots "Mein apne life mein kuch na kuch toh dhang ka kaam kar hi loonga sir" :) {excuse my Hindi}

Now let's see the next set of questions I throw at myself.

4. Do I have the fear of Water, height, or do I have any other phobias ?
-No.

5. Am I afraid of lizards, cockroaches, leeches etc ?
-No. I don't fear most animals, except a Lion. I get a little scared when I get really close to it though :)

6. Am I afraid to fall in love? or to be in a relationship?
-No.

7. Do I fear losing some things like mobile, bike etc .? basically materialistic things?
- No. That does not mean I will be happy losing them :P

8. Am I afraid of the future? the uncertainty? the inability to decide what to do next?
- Yes. Me being unable to see myself clearly in the future is quite unsettling to say the least. But would just thinking about it help? I guess not. I may plan, but I may not execute.

9.And this is the final one I can think of presently. Am I afraid to lose?

-No. I am not exactly afraid to lose. But I really hate to lose. Who does, right? I think I am more afraid of not learning from my failures than the failure itself.

These are 9 questions I could think of. There will be others which I would definitely would have missed. Do let me know and most importantly, try asking the same questions to yourself. May be, just may be, you would discover something about you which you didn't even realize :)