Let us imagine a situation that could happen to any one of us. One night when you are sleeping with your family, you would hear loud noises outside. Let us say that noises are clearly suspicious that say some malicious activity is going on. Now they would be loud enough that most us would wake up to take notice. One of the family members, let us say either wife or husband shakes up their other half and tries to confirm whether they are also hearing the noises from outside. In spite of hearing loud noises, if somebody says that they do not hear any noise, there could be many reasons for this.
Like.
- Why to take risk,
- Why to get involved
- What if we get into some trouble
- Scared to take on the people outside
- What if the people attack us
- What if I get hurt
- We don’t have the strength and courage to face the situation outside
Simple to say it is the fear of unknown. Also it is a natural and most common attitude we show when we are in an unfamiliar situation. Nobody cares until they are affected , negatively impacted. People generally wake up to the reality only when they get into trouble or when they are in the middle of tornado.
It is the same situation as a frog in the boiling water. You put a frog in a bowl of water and keep heating it. The water gets hotter and hotter. Frog jumps out of the water only when the water is so hot that it realizes that it is going to burn to death. Sometimes it could happen that frog looses its strength due to the heat build up and may not be able to jump out of water in the nick of time. This could result in death.
We generally have this kind of attitude towards things in life that are most valuable and worth fighting for like health, fitness, well being, relationships, doing meaningful tasks that makes us alive, sharing and offering our services to others etc. We do not take preemptive actions to take precautions or to strengthen ourselves to deal with unexpected situations in life. We keep postponing and keep ignoring various signals only to find ourselves in a irreparable position at a later stage.
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