“All we have to fear is fear itself.” Have you ever had a fear that you have now overcome? Share your experience with your partner.
Roosevelt has appropriately said, “All we have to fear is fear itself.” These words have a deeper meaning for all of us. It implies that we fear from fear. Those who have undergone this experience of fear, they can only appreciate its worth. William O. Douglas has faced it twice in his life. He had a terrible fear of water. He could not go for swimming, boating, canoeing and rafting, etc. He realised that it would ruin his career since fear was following and haunting him wherever he went. Fear is our hard core enemy. We must get rid of it at the earliest like Douglas. I too had a terrible experience in my life.
A small tributary flows near our village. During the summer vacation we used to go there for bathing and swimming. Very often we were made cautious by the villagers not to bathe in it since there is a deeper whole inside the stream. Being children we never bothered. One day we took out our clothes and plunged into it. By chance the water was overflowing the banks and the current was fast. While diving, two among us got stuck into the hole. We cried and cried but we were going deeper and deeper. We thought that it was the end of our life. One of the boy came outside and saw the villagers. He cried and cried. They came and brought us out of the water. But this enabled us to challenge the fears of life and we can undertake adventurous works.
