Difference between fear and respect.

                                          Fear or respect???

Hello friends, in this blog, I will share the difference between fear and respect. Unlike arrogance and confidence which I discussed in my previous blog, fear and respect can be distinguished quite easily. But most of the people mistaken their fear for respect.

What I believe is that, where there is respect, there is no fear. Respect does not mean u should stay under someone. Respect gives us the opportunity to share our ideas and perspectives. It just that, respect is a way of self-delivering in a proper body language and an approachable voice. It depends upon how you prefer to deliver things. While I believe fear has no platform at all. The people we fear are taken as the powerful elements of the society, who suppress and we would rather follow their commands than express ones.

Let me give you an example. We have been taught from our early day to respect our parents, teachers and elders. We have also been taught not to fear for anything and to learn and live life courageously. But the children never know when their respect towards their advisers had been converted into fear. Most of the children in our country have at least one person they fear to an extent that they actually never take a step without the advice of those people. They never learn to make decision and life choices and always remain backward with fear, mental pressure and disappointment.

Real respect is in empathy and understanding, of two different people on a ground level, looking straight at each other. Not when where one is looking up at the other, and then away, as the other is looking down at him. Respect is always willful and voluntary.

Unlike respect, fear is a purer emotion. It is the recognition that something has the potential to harm you and nothing more. It does not involve the complex mix of attraction and avoidance that respect does, it simply makes people want to get away from the object of fear as soon as possible.

Fear is never good for any one. It makes you feel low. It drops down your confidence and decision making. With fear, nothing sounds possible. Fear is lead with high level of mental pressure which can also lead to depression.

One can always overcome fear. The initial step is obviously hard but when taken, leads our path to glory. If we fear of something, let’s face it and then break it being free and up on our own feet with the birth of self confidence, faith in one self and positive thinking.