Mirage

Sir Walter Scott once said, ~A thousand fearful images and dire suggestsions glance along the mind when it's moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.~ Each of us, who are traveling down our own road of life, in which we have experienced scary situations. Those scary situations, if one looks back on it, gave each of us strength, courage, and confidence that one has always had deep inside one's heart, mind body, and soul. For that person, it's just a matter of breaking through the facade that he or has imagined and/or built up and simply moved foward in one's own particular venture.

As little kids, what each of us feared the most as were the supposed scary monsters that either lived in our closets or under our beds. For our eyes and ears can literally play tricks on us as we are trying embrace the darkness which will help us head off into that proverbial utopia called slumberland. It's at that point one will start to see dark shapes and hear certain noises in which our minds want go into maximum overdrive in a manner of speaking. In a way, it the things we think we see and hear, as a little kid, are in reality simple made up illusions created by our own imagination. It then basically manifests into something much bigger, but yet it is actually smaller than it appears.

In some cases, a person puts up illusions after illusion pertaining to one work ethic as he or she is talking the talk, but not walking the walk. It's a false perception where a person is not scared to be who they really are, but sometimes who they really are can be a real disappointment. It can be a sad situation indeed when a person claims to have the qualifications to be a potential leader in the making, but yet is still consider a follower that has still so much to learn. What truly make a potental leader is one that works hard, is able to handle crisis situations under pressure, who is able to delegate authority as well as be a team player, and yet is not afraid to fail and learn from that failure.

Saying "I Love You" can be considered the most easiest and/or hardest thing to say to a person. Yet, one has that innate fear that the person he or she is saying to might not say those words back. It can be a scary situation as one awaits those three simple words and have it replaced by a long, drawn out, awkward silence in which it is actually said back or not at all. Let me ask you this question, who was the last person you said I love you to and was it reciprocated back? Thinking about it, when it comes to saying those three words, don't be scared to look that person in the eyes because those two eyes are considered windows to the soul that are a doorway to that person's heart.

Someone once said, ~I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life, especially thefear of change, the fear of the unknown, and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if venture too far.~ Each of us can conquer almost any fear that is placed before out path, it just a matter of putting your mind and heart into it because one's fear doesn't really exist except in our head. In retrospect, the fears each of us have is merely mirage after mirage trying to stop us from moving foward, and it's the things that scare us the most that actually save us in the end.