Insecurity, a euphemism for fear

Of all the problems that the mind has, fear is the worst. It is present everywhere and in everything. When you need to begin something new, fear shows up, attacking you from the bottom of your stomach. For many, the fear can manifest very subtly in the form of not allowing them to voice their views at a social gathering. For few, it manifests in such an obvious manner, that they would be afraid to open the window and let in fresh air and sunlight, as they are now so used to the stuffy air inside the room!Fear is fundamentally the non-acceptance of change. Change, as it is so often said, is the only constant thing in existence. We are changing every moment – blood moves from one part of the body to another constantly, the cells are moving, communicating, dying, being born again, the breathing process takes place, getting transported to many parts of the body within a few seconds. In your mind, if there is a thought that this could be the best moment in your life, or even imagine some possibility to be the best for you and you wish to freeze that frame to capture our good mood and emotions, photographs are taken and they are laminated. We frame them and keep looking at them. But nature does not operate on the basis of such frozen frames or picture postcard shots. It is a constant flux from a gentle wave now to a tsunami the next moment. It need not happen, it may not happen, will not necessarily happen, but there is a possibility that it will happen. Being in tune with the possibilities of change every moment, and accepting it totally, is living life to the fullest.A commonly used word, insecurity, or rather the need to feel secure about life, is a euphemism for fear. You have typecast your life in a manner and imagine it to be the best and want it to repeat month after month – receiving your salary, spending it mindlessly through the month, expecting your salary the next month, receiving your salary, spending it, waiting for the next, an assured process, just like running on the treadmill. This is a secure life, but only according to you. Nothing is secure in this wide universe. We never know when when the financial situation can crash, when there will be war, when disaster will strike, when you will face difficulty as an individual.  So, insecurity and fear have no place. We don’t control our situations all the time. The easier way is to simply be and go with the flow.