Feel Intimidated?

Life intimidates us in mysterious ways. It’s not always easy to sail through every wave with success. The circumstances- the very circumstances contexualizing our existence- turn into threatening possibilities. We should blame? If yes, to whom, then. To blame family, culture, time, or governmental system we happen to inhabit? Or, to blame that mysterious blind stroke of chance which brought us to this world?

Blaming is easy, but highly unproductive and boring !

Feeling intimidated before circumstances are powerful but tricky. It develops reaction and where lies the trick. We are anxious to do something; we brainstorm, reflect, and put effort. We wrestle with old and try to build a new version of us. We persevere before difficulties. We try to be forthcoming. Nevertheless, there comes a point when we feel intimidated before the consequences of our journey. We waver, and our inner self forks off. And here the monstrous tentacles of intimidation come into play.

We indulge in a game of possibilities. We imagine a number of paths that may save us from the dread-of-the-moment. We are impatient to be rescued and we want to make it quick. Here, our DNA-part may play a decisive role. We respond to be violent, meek, or confident and composed.

Sometimes, we do self-deception, too. Fear reigns whole of us, but we pretend to be brave.

When and where we respond to be brave, and when to meek depend on a person’s own biochemistry and attitudes towards life. Consequences of being-brave haunt us and of being-meek furnishes a path-of-solace from the dread-of-the-moment. That one moment tests whole in us what is termed to be courage.

Courage is not what we utter, rather, it is how we behave when we are being intimated.

In those moments of intimidation, we have to hold. Initially, to hold for a while, and then rise to intimidation bit-by-bit. If we can deter a little longer before the moments of intimidation, we may see better possibilities and may save us descending into chaos so earlier. If we can deter a little longer, we may realize what stuff we are made of in real. If we can deter a little longer, we may find a different level of consciousness.

Quite often, we feel intimated before life. Good news is it’s less important. What is important is how do we respond and can we deter a little longer?