Thursday, January 23, 2014

Healthy Fear

In a world that is becoming arrogant and fearlessness is treated as a virtue, I am here trying write the virtue of healthy fear.

Fear of Law:  Every citizen should have fear of Law of the state. This conscious fear is what keeps the crime rate down and helps the society with providing a conducive environment for peaceful living. The moment this fear goes down among people, the order gets perturbed and it becomes difficult to lead a happy life.

Fear of Failing the Parent: This is what keeps many kids to work hard and progress in life. This fear is helpful in multiple front including the studies and conduct. I kind of had this fear on most part of my student life and I can say looking back today that this fear was the major motivating factor for me to get into premier institute like BITS pilani. 

Fear of Spoiling Self/Family Repute: This fear is closely related to above but more importantly this drives the conduct. This fear keeps a person going in ethical path and alerts him/her at every instance of temptation to deviate from it. A person who doesn't have this sort of fear is a potential candidate for doing down the inappropriate path.

Fear of society: Lack of the fear of society has its own repercussive impact on the orderliness. We can clearly observe this in today's context where crime in broad day light has increased. While doing a bad deed, it is this fear that controls an urge to boldly commit this.  Eve teasing, acid attacks, public parks turning to romance addas etc are few examples of impact of absence of fear of society.

Fear of Boss: This is what drives many staff to proper goals at organizational level. This could be in many ways respect and fear that makes a staff to put more productive output. Fear of failing my boss in the confidence he vested in me, is the only motivating factor to keep me working in office day in day out.

Fear of Exam: Needless to say this is what keeps a student alert and the Brahmastra to make him study. This is the crucial aspect of current educational system. Personally I feel that the zeal to learn is what should motivate a student to study, but that's become a rarity in McCauley's educational system.

Fear of God: This fear is what keep conscience repeatedly tell us not to commit sins. Absence of this fear is what is going create devils out of humans. Its really difficult to handle these sort of people to ethical route.

Fear of Failure:  Even though considered by many as a bad trait, this fear of failure in a limited/controlled manner is what helps a person to focus on the task and keep him/her to put necessary checks and balances to complete it.
 

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