Fear is only a state of mind. My 2-year old son taught me this.
He was playing in the garden with his ball and suddenly threw the ball at a sleeping stray dog. The dog woke up, saw my son and went back to his sleep. My son was asking him to play ball with him. He chased the dog around the entire garden and I had to finally take him in my lap so that the poor dog could finally go back to his sleep.
My mother blows the 'shankh' every morning. My son is so scared of its loud sound, that now he cries even at the sight of it. Even if you dont blow the shankh and just bring it near him, he starts crying.
He used to cry everytime the cooker whistled. Now he has understood that its nothing to be scared of and thats the way food is cooked.
The point is we are scared of the dog because we are always thinking it will bite me. We know the harmlessness of a cooker whistle and a 'shankh'. And so, we are not scared of these things. In nutshell, most of our fears are self-made.
He was playing in the garden with his ball and suddenly threw the ball at a sleeping stray dog. The dog woke up, saw my son and went back to his sleep. My son was asking him to play ball with him. He chased the dog around the entire garden and I had to finally take him in my lap so that the poor dog could finally go back to his sleep.
My mother blows the 'shankh' every morning. My son is so scared of its loud sound, that now he cries even at the sight of it. Even if you dont blow the shankh and just bring it near him, he starts crying.
He used to cry everytime the cooker whistled. Now he has understood that its nothing to be scared of and thats the way food is cooked.
The point is we are scared of the dog because we are always thinking it will bite me. We know the harmlessness of a cooker whistle and a 'shankh'. And so, we are not scared of these things. In nutshell, most of our fears are self-made.
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