14 September 2012
Worry, anxiety, panic, apprehension. Familiar?
Today, while trying to really figure out what to do with my idle mind at the workstation, I bumped into a contemplation of what really triggers 'worrying' to be a part of my daily routine. After much deliberation I eventually settled with a conclusion, that the similarity among the dissimilar issues that we choose to apprehend upon, is always the overstated feeling of 'fear' of something uncertain.
For my fellow finance specialists, in the language of finance, it is the full undue charge of a 'Contingent Liability' on your statement of happiness (aka gains) and upsets (aka losses), regardless of its actual occurrence. And so, an ever curious me, continued to intrigue more into the variety of regular phobias that we deal with at the different milestones in life.
The Infants, as I term them, who appear to me as the ones presumably oblivious to the seriousness of life, their usual worry causes are the curriculum, exams, results and then the trademark 'how many better are out there'. What follows for them may be is the fear of new places, unrecognition, under confidence, fear of limelight. For others, who possess the softer emotions in abundance worry about sharing personal traumas for the fear of them coming out in open, falling in love and then the inevitable break ups.
The little grown ups reach up to a different, more abstract kinds, like the fear of being disregarded, unwanted seclusion and being misunderstood. And the most common of all, fear of attachment, losing the loved ones and the fear of dying, in the pool where even I fall (good or bad, don't know).
To what I've come to conclude is, that when the most animated, real most and the permanent form of fear is the fear of death, or fear of losing someone to death, about which nothing can be possibly done, why make such a row about those which we know will pass on as history. Notwithstanding the fact that there do exist a few really very serious problems floating around in the lives of people, which my thoughts don't mean to undermine, but stress on the 'stop worrying, do something' part of it.
My whole purpose to express this concern in public interest is actually to question whether worrying is indeed a waste of your own time and energy, and that it may be a contingent cost that unnecessarily and untimely reduces the value of the gains from the statement of life.
(Well, so is blogging in your office time, duh!. Do they keep an account of that in some statement?)
(*Wears the glasses, picks up a pen and starts gazing at the screen*)
Worry, anxiety, panic, apprehension. Familiar?
Today, while trying to really figure out what to do with my idle mind at the workstation, I bumped into a contemplation of what really triggers 'worrying' to be a part of my daily routine. After much deliberation I eventually settled with a conclusion, that the similarity among the dissimilar issues that we choose to apprehend upon, is always the overstated feeling of 'fear' of something uncertain.
For my fellow finance specialists, in the language of finance, it is the full undue charge of a 'Contingent Liability' on your statement of happiness (aka gains) and upsets (aka losses), regardless of its actual occurrence. And so, an ever curious me, continued to intrigue more into the variety of regular phobias that we deal with at the different milestones in life.
The Infants, as I term them, who appear to me as the ones presumably oblivious to the seriousness of life, their usual worry causes are the curriculum, exams, results and then the trademark 'how many better are out there'. What follows for them may be is the fear of new places, unrecognition, under confidence, fear of limelight. For others, who possess the softer emotions in abundance worry about sharing personal traumas for the fear of them coming out in open, falling in love and then the inevitable break ups.
The little grown ups reach up to a different, more abstract kinds, like the fear of being disregarded, unwanted seclusion and being misunderstood. And the most common of all, fear of attachment, losing the loved ones and the fear of dying, in the pool where even I fall (good or bad, don't know).
To what I've come to conclude is, that when the most animated, real most and the permanent form of fear is the fear of death, or fear of losing someone to death, about which nothing can be possibly done, why make such a row about those which we know will pass on as history. Notwithstanding the fact that there do exist a few really very serious problems floating around in the lives of people, which my thoughts don't mean to undermine, but stress on the 'stop worrying, do something' part of it.
My whole purpose to express this concern in public interest is actually to question whether worrying is indeed a waste of your own time and energy, and that it may be a contingent cost that unnecessarily and untimely reduces the value of the gains from the statement of life.
(Well, so is blogging in your office time, duh!. Do they keep an account of that in some statement?)
(*Wears the glasses, picks up a pen and starts gazing at the screen*)
Fear of failure, fear of the unknown & fear of the surroundings.
ReplyDeleteThoughtful. Period.