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The fear of the unknown.

By Bamboo In The Wind

Not knowing is uncomfortable. Why is it so? We feel rudderless, directionless, fearful. Overcoming the fear of the unknown requires getting to the bottom of what we mean when we say we do not know. Right from childhood, our upbringing brings biases of all kinds. How relationships, societies, and workplaces work. We rarely learn deeply from how nature works. No matter our mood, seasons show up on time. The daily bloom of flowers follows a pattern. There is no conflict with the surroundings. No one has to assign them a job to have daily produce of flowers. Trees and plants don't focus on whether someone gives them space. They explore the places for growth and eventually find their own space.


Why do people struggle to find their space? Often it's due to fear of the unknown. Not knowing has repercussions - so we strongly believe - of creating poor impressions, and being less respectful in the eyes of others. It's the perceived damage to our reputation and want of constant recognition that forces us to want to know everything around us or demonstrate what we know.

What if we became comfortable with being in the state of not knowing many things around us. What if we cared a bit less about what others think? Then shame that stems from how we look at people quickly vanishes. But it does something more positive and impactful. It gives you space to find ways to grow. You begin to explore without impressions in mind. Your explorations give you experiences that are unique, you build your stories and you have a chance to build new connections through these stories which are pathways to bring your experiences into open.

You just need to accept you will have unknowns, we need to get comfortable with those and create a series of steps to turn not known into something lesser-known, and we might end up finding something that we cared to know, turn out to be a unique journey; Something that is useful that others too did not know or ignored to look into!

Differentiators are often created when we shun the fear of the unknown and look in places where most don't.

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