Try a cliché

According to the South African Pocket Oxford Dictionary - 3^rd edition, a cliché is a phrase or idea that has been overused and has become uninterested or stale.  In our society today, we have many of those. Words like “fun”, “I love you”, “I’m sorry” and often they mean nothing to the person saying it.

Let’s take for example the phrase “I am sorry”. Many of us use this word every day and what bugs me, is that we don’t really meaning it. I am sorry, means that you acknowledge the wrong doing and assume responsibility for the wrong. Hence, giving you the chance to make amends and change things to be right.

Now, it does not work like that anymore. I am sorry can be used to just make the person hurt or offended get over things, even if the offender does not mean it. As long as I said sorry, he/she must get over it and move on. That is one of our thinking.

We are in a world in which words get twisted, misunderstood and drawn out of the real context. Whatever you say, know the real meaning before using it in a sentence and please, mean it.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordboner/4196390666/

Fear

According the South African Pocket Oxford Dictionary, 3^rd edition – Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain or harm. Indeed fear is an unpleasant emotion and no one likes that emotion.

Will focus on the threat of pain - We all have pains, it can be the pain of losing a love one (mother, sister, father, best friend or a lover). When we go through this type of pain, the emotion that always arises from it, is that we feel that we can’t go on and cannot live or survive without them. Often, thinking about the fact of them being gone or even losing them, brings an immediate rush of fear into our lives. It is normal and it happens.

One thing you have to know is that, fear has the power to control your life and so don’t let it. The remedy that I find comforting is Hope. It gives a person certain assurance that things will be alright. That even in the midst of pain, harm or danger, things will be alright and they always do – don’t you agree with me?

And so, I will advise you not to give in to fear. Fear will present itself; it will knock on your door, but chose to reject it and don’t open the door. Take the courage and hope in the best. Often it seems impossible, because of what you might be going through, but it is not. Make the choice and take it a step at a time.

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http://askapic.com/q/fear_is_a_prison-q157/