Me and My Experiments with Human Understanding Part 3

Part 3 - Fear

Before starting the topic, I would like to make sincere apologies to those who like this blog and didn't get to see some action for a long long time. The reason for my absence was purely unavailability of time. Past six months have been busiest months of my life. It is not that I was working very hard, actually I was enjoying alot too. The CWG experience was riveting, one of the most memorable ever. Meeting some extraordinary people and volunteering for the country. But still I should have taken some time out. Nevertheless, let's move on to our topic of discussion.

Fear, the thing that is felt by everyone. Those who say they don't fear anything, obviously lie. We all know what fear is and how it is incited, so lets not waste time discussing that. What I am interested in, are the consequences of fear.

Fear can drive a perfectly healthy person to complete insanity. It can make people kill each other. Some fear studies, some their work, some just fear fear. I know all the crap said about fearing the fear itself and I perfectly know that it isn't possible at all. Fear is just one of the those emotions that you cannot evade from. It sucks you in like a vacuum cleaner and before you realize, you are trapped in the cage that sometimes is made of steel or rather diamond.

This cage either breaks on its own, when the thing or task you fear is won over or you have to go an extra mile. Talking more about breaking this cage is irrelevant here.

While talking to my friend I came to realize a theory of mine. I think that it might be the closest to what can happen in 2012 ( I know I am addicted to this ). I think that 2012 end of the world, can be a reality just out of fear. There is a need of only one country with nuclear capabilities to fear that end of the world is a possibility. As we know, fear can drive people to go insane, the leadership of the country can start a nuclear war. The reason for the war could just be to eliminate the threat of mass destruction and the people creating it. For example, US can bomb Iran just out of fear that they will bomb them and start a nuclear war. This will incite Iranian allies to attack US. Looking at any instability in the US, Pakistan will fall. That means attack on India. Indian allies like Russia will attack Pakistan and so on with other countries. Pretty astonishing right?

I can understand that you feel that above theory is far-fetched and I know that but, which 2012 theory isn't. Leaving aside 2012, lets to the human understanding part. Fear can break people as well as relations. I have seen people losing trust in there best friends just out of fear of some or the other thing. Sometimes, it is really heart breaking. Relationships are broken because one or the other suspects cheating. Such small decisions can change the course of the world if we think of the chaos theory. But, isn't that's how its supposed to be?

World is ever changing and by every passing moment it is becoming more and more fearful. As we grow up, we are more susceptible to fear because of the shear pressure of responsibilities. A child is always more fearless unless someone teaches him how to fear. This concludes that fear is actually learnt.

It is absolutely amazing that we learn things that can go one to even kill ourselves or somebody else. So, to control fear, it is necessary to control what we actually learn. The solution always lie at the root of things.

With this thought I leave you. Up there in those words is a solution to another mindly mystery. Keep looking this space guys. Its going to be very active in the coming days.