Is Fear A Blessing?

God has blessed us all with five senses i.e. sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. But there is another sense, which we normally call the sixth sense. And that is the prediction or guess of something that we cannot feel with the physical senses. It is a gift from God as we would have been paralyzed if we did not have this sense. Sometimes we attribute the sixth sense with some special people. But to me, God has gifted everybody with this sense. The only difference is how different people use this gift.

And it would have been much dangerous to survive without this ability. It is all living bodies' instinct (except plants) to get alert against a potential danger. It is a response to a possible future event that we are less appreciative about. Fear protects us from the heavy losses.

All our senses are gifts from God and so, for our benefit. But many of us fail to understand ourselves and all these gifts. This gives a way to un-fulfillment and anxiety. If we had a negative experience in the past, we relate the same hypothesis for the future results of the same actions.

The human fear is somewhat different from that of the other living animals. Such feelings in other animals are called alert and they always try to either fight or escape from the possible threat. Human beings relate their past wrong doings with the future results rather trying to fix them.

But we can conquer our fear by taming it for the good purpose. Minor troubles in our lives; prepare us for the upcoming hard targets to hit as an untried and untested one would not be able to compete in the bigger challenges that lie ahead in life to face.

We can translate our fear into our alert, alert into challenge, challenge into opportunity and opportunity into our benefit; only if we choose a positive attitude towards our daily lives. But, whole the formula would reverse back if we had a negative approach i.e. out benefits would convert back to our fears.

If we tame our fear into pain, we can use it for our success in life. Some people are pain driven, some pleasure driven. They both are better than the people than any other drive. It means pain or fear. Once Mahatma Gandhi said, "If we keep bearing and collecting pain, one day we could use it for a greater success"