Fear

Fear - The word evokes different feelings in all of us and we all fear different things. We fear the physical injuries as well as emotional ones all the time. I started to think about this when out on a very mundane visit to the bank ...........I was walking down and suddenly the sight of a lone man in the sidelane that I was passing through made me clutch my bag a little more tightly. I was surprised at the reaction as many countless times I had passed through the sidelanes for the bank. You see, the evening previous to that one aunty whose sister lives near the bylane told me that the RWA had put up a notice for the residents to be careful of the snatchers in the lane, and there I was imagining perhaps what might not be.....the man passed me by and I breathed a sigh of relief and went on to finish business at the bank.


Well, one small thing that set me thinking and I realised that I feel really vulnerable when i am walking on road sides with heavy traffics, or in an auto going off to a far off place,I love cooking but am really scared of pressure cookers and gas cylinders...I am scared for the safety of my children and get really hyper when I cant see them at an appointed time or play in the park...I am also scared of dark places, perhaps not so much of the lonely ones............



I wondered why this is happening...........and realised that the media is a lot to blame for this and the change that one percieves in the society। The media is forever creating panic and making moutains out of molehills to grab eyeballs from the audiences and we respond . We should believe that our children are not safe in school as there are many sex starved teachers there and lord forbid that they zero in on our daughters...There are drug addicts wanting to add on to their lot and will be soon targetting our sons...There are chain snatchers and thieves who want your money or your life...and if you live in Delhi then there is road rage that you have to fear when out on the streets... And wait while you are at home, your servant and cook is about to get you for a few thousands that you have, if you read newspapers or watch TV channels then you will discover many new ways in which someone is out to get you....

I think I have passed on some of the panic to my children - good or bad I don't know, but am sure they are careful when out there.........And confident that they are as God is walking with them