Fear and Respect

Fear and respect, a bit similar, yet different, are two kinds of feelings. On one hand, fear is the feeling of being scared or sensing danger. Whereas, on the other hand, respect is the feeling of admiration for something or someone. They are both somewhat the feelings of being inferior to something or someone. Now that's not completely true, but if you think about it deep enough, that's pretty much a fair assumption to make. And if you think about it deeper, it is not wrong to say that fear is simply respecting someone or something based on the sense of danger it might cause. And some might even argue that respect involves a low level of fear of being inferior and not being able to match them. But these are debatable topics as different people tend to perceive them differently.

Now if you ask me, with fear, comes a bit of respect and with respect, comes a bit of fear. You really can't help it, as this is how our brain seems to work. For example, I always respected my teachers, but there was also a sense of fear that caused me to respect them. But it is also true that my respect for them caused a feeling of fear towards them to kick in, in the first place. Another suitable example would be my respect for God, as I respect him like we all do, but at the same time, I fear him for his capability to punish me for my sins. But there are cases where only one of the two feelings is involved. Let's say a person is held captive and is about to be killed. Now obviously, there is a lot of fear involved, but i doubt that he respects the person trying to kill him. He definitely fears the other person, but the idea of him having any respect for the other person simply doesn't sound right.

It is indeed a very confusing topic with no certain explanation. It is just one of those topic where you cannot stick with one idea, as different ideas seem possible. We just have to judge it based on the given situation. And if I were to choose, I'd choose to be respected and not feared of, as being admired is what a person should seek, not to be someone who others are scared of.

Confidence and Arrogance

People tend to misinterpret arrogance for confidence, but if you think about it deeply, you'll notice that they hold two whole different meanings. They're similar, yet a lot different. Arrogance means to display one's superiority or being proud enough to consider oneself superior to others. Confidence on the other hand, is the feeling of being certain for something to happen. In other words, confidence means to have faith in something.

If you ask me, I'd go for a bit of arrogance and a lot more confidence. It's in our nature to possess both. Some express more arrogance than confidence, while the others do the opposite. But how much does these couple of qualities affect a person's life. Well, the answer is, a lot. People are judged based on these qualities and their personalities are set accordingly. The ones who are more arrogant are usually the ones hated or feared of. Not that they are bad human beings, but that's how most people tend to judge. I wouldn't put confidence on a different page though, as arrogance is more of being too confident while underestimating other's potential. Confident people are usually taken as the ones with high capabilities, and even if they're not, this one quality tends to make them look like they possess a lot more potential than they actually have.

Besides that, confidence leads you to your highest potential, as it makes you believe that you're fully capable of reaching your goal and it keeps you going. Where as, arrogance tend to make people think that they've already crossed the finish line, even though they're still half way short of it and they end up coming to a halt on their way to the finish line.

Therefore, it is vital for us to be confident, but not so much confident that we'd end up being arrogant instead. But like i said, it's in our nature to possess both arrogance and confidence, and sometimes, we cannot help but be arrogant. However, we should be smart and always express the right kind of quality in the right place and in the right time.

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Roles I Play Everyday

It is not certain for a person to act the same way every day. Someday, he may play the role of a certain kind of person, and any other day, he may be playing the role of a whole different kind of person. Now if you ask me, it’s not up to him to decide the role he’s going to play for the rest of the day. In any normal case, the mood of the person and the kind of situation he is in, dictates the roles he plays. Similarly, I play different kinds of roles, and most of the time, I am not even aware about the role I am playing. It all depends on the mood, emotion and situation.

Well, it’s not possible for me to write about all the roles I’ve played till this date, therefore I’ll focus on a particular day. In this case, I’ll write about the roles I played on my last birthday. Well, I didn’t actually plan to play any kind of role, but the circumstances led me to play the role of a proud person. It was my birthday and the day I get treated the best by every single person.  It was a real good feeling to be in that position.

Now moving on to the details of that particular day, I was in my normal self, a bit serious and quiet until I met my friends. Well, things get out of control quite often when we are with our friends, but that was the day when I could dictate almost everything. I was simply playing the role of a proud person, enjoying and fully utilizing the power I had. Everyone was trying hard to meet the birthday boy’s increasing high demands and the birthday boy couldn’t have felt any better. Well, as hard as others were trying to keep me happy, they might have equally been frustrated with how proud and selfish I was being. But, birthdays come once a year, so they had no other choice but to deal with it.

Later that day, I was with my family to celebrate my birthday. This time, I switched my role to a loving son. Now like I said, it’s not something I decide to do, it simply happens automatically. Well my mom was preparing lunch for us all, and I was just trying to help her, although I’m very bad at it. But me, trying to help her did make her feel good, as she doesn’t see me doing that too often.  Anyways, all members of my family were trying hard to make me feel special, and I was simply appreciating what they were doing for me. 

So that’s how the day went, with me playing two different kinds of roles.  That’s what we human beings do, consciously or sub-consciously, we all end up playing different sorts of roles to adapt to different situations. And it’s vital for us to switch roles according to the situation we’re in, to avoid awkward moments and blend in with the surrounding.