{"id":373,"date":"2020-06-22T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T08:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/?p=373"},"modified":"2020-06-22T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T08:48:22","slug":"we-should-follow-our-hopes-and-not-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/2020\/06\/22\/we-should-follow-our-hopes-and-not-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"WE SHOULD FOLLOW OUR HOPES AND NOT FEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Keep your eyes on the Sun and you will not see the shadows.\u201d<\/em> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Australian Aborigine saying <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The\nstruggle for freedom in India, from an empire whose \u201csun never set\u201d, was a\nmovement driven by hope. The movement against apartheid in South Africa, in\nspite of several setbacks, was kept alive with hope. When Dr. Martin Luther\nKing Jr. cried out to his fellow Americans that \u201cI have a dream\u201d, he was\nextending hope to an entire population. Hope made it possible for the blind to\nread through Braille. Space exploration is a field driven by hope. Hope has\ntaken man to the moon and will one day establish its settlements on Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope\nand fear both are emotions where hope persuades us to keep going ahead as already\nstated by citing some examples, whereas fear prevents us from taking any steps\nbecause of the negative impact we think our decisions may have. Every day,\nmillions of people struggle to get one square meal to sustain themselves\nthroughout the day. What keeps
\nsuch people alive? Man shall not survive on bread alone. It is hope which\nsustains him for the day and not simply food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope\nthat tomorrow they would eat and be full. Hope which speaks to them that this\nis not the end and there would be days when they would not sleep hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nshould be anchored to hope. An anchor is used to moor a ship to the sea bottom.\nWhen a ship is anchored, it moves because of the waves below but the captain of\nthe ship does not get apprehensive because he knows that the anchor is\ncontrolling the boat. Likewise, hope is the anchor of our soul. After the world\nhad witnessed the devastations caused by the two World Wars, the United Nations\nwas founded with the promise of establishing peace in the
\nworld. There might have been disappointments but it still makes all efforts to\ncontrol flare-ups like the recent one by North Korea. The \u2018fear\u2019 of nuclear\nweapons is being continuously dealt with the \u2018hope\u2019 of securing peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fears\nhold us back; hope helps us to achieve. And we dare to dream because of hope\npresent inside us. And yes we should not have hope in our circumstances because\nthey may let us down, also not in our career or assets as things may change.\nBut we should have belief in ourselves and the Almighty who created us with a\npurpose on this earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nyouth today, given all their skills, resources and talents, settle for the\nordinary instead of striving to be the best. Their fears confine them. They are\nthreatened by their fear of failure, fear of losing out in life, fear of being\na nobody. Fears lead not only to failure but doom. Failures can also be\novercome with hope. But the fear of failure will lead to another failure. The\nfear of defeat can rout an army from the battlefield. Fears also, ultimately\ncan be driven away by either facing them or by taking professional help. There\nare millions of people unemployed in our country. For India to become a\ndeveloped nation with extraordinary and competent youth, we should not give up\non our potential, have visionary teachers and scientists, learn from saints and\nseers, have knowledge in our society and take patriotism beyond politics and\nreligion. Fear paralyses our lives, brains into being the ordinary lot. When\npeople choose to live
\nin a world of fearlessness, they never give up on their hope and choose to be\nsuperhumans. Shark-diving experts, police officers, marine divers, astronauts,\narmy, navy, air force personnel, professional athletes and explorers all face\ndangerous and risky situations every day in their line of work. They are able\nto overcome their fears and face these changes head-on. These people turn their\nweaknesses into their strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If\nyou think life is not meant to work out for you because you failed at a goal or\ndream that did not become a reality, then you have not read the story of Walt\nDisney. Many won\u2019t even put 100 attempts towards their goal let alone fail 300\ntimes. This goes to show if you want to become something failing should not\nstop you from achieving your dreams, Walt Disney is the illustration of that.\nThe irony of Mickey Mouse\u2019s creation is that Walt Disney, in fact, himself was\nafraid of rats. However, he turned his fear into success. And the show still\ngoes on. Disney did not give up even after being subject to a stream of\nfailures. He failed several times (apparently over 300) which included failing\nto open a business, and being rejected by newspaper companies because he lacked\n\u201cartistic integrity\u201d. He still kept pushing the envelope and consistently\npursued what he knew he was capable of doing. Rather than focusing on the past,\nhe put all this energy and attention to the achievements of the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So\nmillions may give up, thousands may stay, but only a handful will turn their\nfears into success. Fear is instilled in us many a time by family members,\nfriends, peers and much by the society we live in. This can influence us in a\nvery negative manner so much so that people may not even linger close to their\ntarget even once in their lives. We should be deaf when people tell us that we\ncannot achieve our dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nis a heartwarming tale of Thomas Alva Edison\u2019s mother lying to him about his\nexpulsion from school due to mental deficiency. Years after Edison\u2019s mother had\ndied he was by then one of the greatest inventors of the century. One day he\nwas going through his closet and he found the folded letter that his old\nteacher wrote to his mother that day. He opened it. This message written in the\nletter was \u201cYour son is mentally deficient. We cannot let him attend our school\nanymore; he is expelled.\u201d  Edison became\nemotional reading it and then wrote in his diary: \u201cThomas A Edison was a\nmentally deficient child whose mother turned him into a genius of the century.\u201d\nHope bestowed on someone can change their destiny. Irrespective of what the\nschool or society thought for Edison, his mother hoped and did her best into\nconverting what seemed impossible for others.\n\nCompetence and hard work do not follow any gender and age bars provided\nwe always pave ways for our hopes rather than our fears. There may be obstacles\nin our life: we may be trying to start a business, waiting to meet the right\nperson, break an addiction, see our families restored or decide on our careers.\nFor this, we need to \u2018Ignite the flame of Hope\u2019 in ourselves by becoming deaf\nand blind to the fears surrounding us.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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