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F(alse) E(vidence) A(ppearing) R(eal) - FEAR
- Mr. Sreedhar

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It causes some people a constant and gnawing pain in the pit of the stomach. Others drink more or smoke more because of it. It’s killed more dreams and ruined more careers than all other causes combined. The longer I live the more I realize that FEAR is the worst enemy of the human species. And it’s been with us since the beginning. The Book of Genesis speaks of fear and it appears throughout the Bible, Torah and Koran. Who can forget the classic line from the Old Testament that was delivered by Job when he said, 'That which I feared most has come upon me.' In fact, it seems the older we get the more prone we are to allowing fear to control our lives. Stop and think about it. Most children are pretty fearless creatures (unless an adult has already instilled a lot of fear in them). Teenagers and even young adults continue to display mostly fearless attitudes. But as we age many people grow more fearful instead of more fearless. And it shouldn’t be that way. Since f-e-a-r is nothing more than False Evidence Appearing Real, we should definitely become more fearless with age because wisdom (which usually comes with age) makes us more apt to see the Truth in a situation. I have friends of mine who were once seemingly fearless super achievers who have reached middle age and have become so fearful that their quality of life has significantly suffered. They have surrendered their dreams and literally their life to some type of fear. Fear of failure...fear of rejection...fear of change...fear of success...fear of making decisions...fear of responsibility...fear of commitment. It is fear (and all of its cousins, such as worry, anxiety, depression, and self-doubt) that will turn your dream of success into a chilling nightmare that haunts you into paralysis. If any kind of fear is holding you back or creating stress and worry in your life, then please read this email carefully --and please act on it NOW. Fear can be defeated because fear is a learned response in the first place. We were only born with two fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. Every other fear you have was learned! To defeat fear all you have to do is to LEARN how to manage it how to master it. I've heard Zig Ziglar on numerous occasions say that 'courage is not the absence of fear, it's the mastery of it.' * Now a Small and nice Story..... by Margaret Parkin Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived an enormous giant. He was at least ten feet tall, with a mop of red hair and a beard, and in his hand he carried a mighty axe. Every year, on the same day, at the same time, the giant would walk down from the mountains which were his home, to stand outside the castle walls, terrorizing the inhabitants. ‘Come, send me your bravest man, and I will fight him,’ the giant would shout, towering over the wall and waving his axe menacingly. ‘Send me someone to fight, or I will knock down your castle walls and kill everyone with my axe.’ And every year, the gate in the castle wall would open slowly and fearfully, and one poor, valiant soul would walk out of face the foe and certain death. ‘Is this the best you can do?’ the giant would laugh mockingly. The poor wretch would stand, mesmerized by the enormity of the giant and the task in hand. Not one person had even managed to draw his sword, before the giant would crush them with his mighty fist, and chop them into tiny pieces with his axe. But then one day, a young prince arrived in the town. ‘Why does everyone here look so frightened and sad?’ he asked a fellow traveller. ‘You haven’t seen the giant yet,’ replied the traveller. ‘What giant?’ asked the young prince, intrigued. The traveller told him the tale. ‘Every year, on this very day, the giant arrives and challenges our bravest to a duel. And every year, he slays them exactly where they stand. They don’t even move or draw their swords. It’s as though the giant hypnotizes them.’ ‘We’ll see about that,’ said the young prince. When the giant arrived later that day, he was waiting for him. ‘Come, send me your bravest man, and I will fight him,’ the giant shouted. ‘I am here,’ said the young prince, throwing open the gate, and striding out towards him. For a moment, they stood and faced each other. Although he was still a long way away from him, the young prince was instantly struck by the sheer size and shocking appearance of his opponent. But, summoning up all his courage, he started to walk towards the giant, brandishing his sword, and never taking his eyes off that dreadful face with the red hair and the red beard. Suddenly, he realized that as he was walking, the giant - rather than appearing larger - actually began to shrink before his very eyes. He stopped and stared. The giant was only five feet tall. He walked closer to him still then stopped and stared. Now the giant was only two feet tall. He continued walking until he was face to face with the giant, and each step he took, he saw the giant shrink. By now the giant was so small, that he looked up at the young prince. He was only 12 inches tall. The young prince took his sword, and plunged it into the giant’s heart. As the giant lay dying on the ground, the young prince bent down and whispered to him, ‘Who are you?’ With his dying breath, the giant replied, ‘My name is Fear.’ MORAL When you take action - the fear disappears!

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