We are afraid of the wrong things.

There are lots of things to be afraid of these days and you need help finding a few more than just pick up your local daily newspaper or turn on the TV news, they’re filled with crime and fires and fears and tears and disgusts, plenty of groceries for fear there.

When I look at my own fears, there are some which are quite strong and I realized they have the ability to cause me severe suffering. My fears really come down to two things, getting old, and death. Though not my own death but the death of those close to me. These two fears are actually just one thing expressions of the fact that all conscious beings will eventually grow old and die. I am not being gloomy this is just a fact of life! The fear of growing old has become particularly relevant to me recently as I approach the 27 next year.

For a while I struggled against this fear and started reading books from people such as Deepak Chopra about elderly and how we can reverse it. However last month I saw a video of Deepak and saw that he looked like an old man! The one man, who seemed to provide evidence against the predictability of growing old, was growing old! So there I was back to the fear of growing old again!

My mother is now in her 80′s and she’s most certainly not going to be around forever so her dying is something that I will have to face unless I die young of course! And that becomes another fear not that I might die young but that somebody close to me, like my partner could!