FEAR OF UNKNOWN

It’s a sunny afternoon, gloom and doom seem to be inscribed all over. My sullen face and irritated mood are nothing but a testament of my disgruntled being. It’s my first day in high school; ‘where boys are made to men’. Weird stories have always ran on the molesting that usually takes place in Kenyan schools. And here I am, a tiny boy ready to walk into the sea of students, some with overgrown beards who I can only hope they aren’t my father’s age. “Am I going to be singing someone a lullaby for the night? Am I going to be cleaning someone’s rugby socks? Am I …”

“Listen to me son. Your hands tremble from fear, I’m certain your whole being withers from it. Fear of the unknown will always be there. The question is, will you be able to fight the course? Both the young and the old, have that fear of uncertainty. Will I succeed? What if I fail? What if this or that happens? What if the deal doesn’t go through? What if she rejects me? What if I make a loss? What if ….

Truth is, you’ve to take the bull by its horns. You’ve to make several decisions in life, which may either fail or succeed. But the most important thing is to learn. Learn the rules of even the most basic things you have to partake. For in knowledge lies baits of wisdom. Let each failure be a learning point and not a cause to panic.

You have to learn the rules of the game and then you have to play better than anyone else.                                  -Albert Einstein.

Learn the rules you have to, then play better than everyone else or adapt them to your own suitability. Play by the rules but better than the best in the game’’

If you live in fear of the future because of what happened in your past, you’ll end up losing what you have in your present.- Anonymous

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear. –Nelson Mandela  

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