I sometimes
wonder why people are always scared of either doing the right things at the
right times, or taking the right step at the appropriate time. I have come
across a lot of people in this life who have gone on to become celebrities in
life, and most of them attest to the fact that they used to be very bold and
courageous before they became famous, but once fame and popularity set in, they
suddenly lost their utmost sense of security. I tried to do a background check
on the possible causes of this awful nuisance called FEAR.
Fear, an acronym
for “False Evidence Appearing Real”, has been defined by a wide range of
sources both online and offline. Encarta
Dictionaries defines it as:
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While fear encapsulates its victim in such a way that
everything it brings their way seems to be authentic. Moving back to my celeb
friends, I got to know that over 80% of present day celebs are either into
drugs, or into heavy alcohol ingestion. It may seem awkward and unbelievable,
but they give their paramount excuse as the fact that it instills in them the
courage they need to go about their daily lives as celebrities. Even out of
remaining 20%, another 5% are just into these life terminating commodities, but
only minorly.
Given the flimsy
excuses above by these widely celebrated personalities, I’ll simply site a real
life example of an international celebrity who despite his world fame has
deteriorated in health and well-being, simply because of drugs and alcohol. For
those of you who have watched the wonderful child epic movie, HOME ALONE,
remember that smart kid in the first and second parts of the movie? His name
was Michael McCulkin. Very recently, he was charged to court for excessive use
of alcohol, and heavy use of drugs like nicotine, marijuana, hemp, to mention
but a few.
If you ever
watched the film then, or even now, and you compare and contrast the very
disgusting difference in him between his childhood and his youthful years at just 31 years of age,
you’ll shake your heads in total disgust, and begin to wonder how he got
himself into the whole mess. I did a little research on the internet about him,
and found out that he was diagnosed to be suffering from depression; a major effect
of FEAR.
My main point from
this short story is: never let FEAR catch up with you, no matter your status or
position in life. When next I’ll be talking about FEAR, I’ll be analyzing the
other effects of fear, and how to generally overcome it.
©2012 Adesina David
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