Sunday, February 11, 2007
On Being Afraid
I have been watching the entire second season of House M.D. for the past two weekends. Watching the series trigerred a lot of thoughts in me, particularly about life and death.
Since House MD is a medical series, what often happens is that the patients, after getting a second lease on life, starts becoming elated and appreciating life. They suddenly see the value of their life, become more aware of life's blessings and just generally become more grateful.
After seeing through so many of these scenes, I realized that there was hardly a patient who welcomed death. This made me question if people in general, just choose to live because they are afraid of death or if they really see value in their existence.
I have also started to question myself whether it is just my fear of death that really pushes me to live. In general, there are certain fears that primordially exists within me that unfortunately defines some of my actions -- fear of death, fear of rejection and fear of failure. Do I really choose to exist because I love life and appreciate its blessings? I would like to believe that yes, I do and for the most part I do. But there is room for improvement.
Fear cages people. Fear imprisons. Fear limits. Fear causes worry. Fear leads to unhappiness. Fear is the opposite of faith.
Right now, I would rather have faith than live in fear. :)
2 comments:
the question could be as well "why do you fear death". most probably the answer would be something like "because i dont know what it is like" or if you think more: because I love life so much that I an hardly imagine something better.
hey ekay. it's pia. :) left a comment in your family friends entry. i do hope i'll hear from you soon...
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