Young Writers Society

I am sure I am not one of the only guys in this world who is scared of dogs. Well I am not that scared of snakes, but when it comes to dogs yes, I am pussy cat! I change my routes if I see a dog even hundreds of feet away from me. Let me recall an incident which occurred to me quite a while ago.

It was a sunny day, just perfect for an alone, quite walk; I was coming back from school, with earphones in my ears, listening to music; when I saw a dog, sitting quietly on the other side of the road. My heart pounded, my mind stopped working, I had no other choice than to go from that road. I had no other choice than to take this risk now; I felt brave and went further. As expected, that decent looking dog (at least it was decent about 10 seconds ago) stood up like a lion and barked at me. I didn't have much time to think what to do. The only thing in my mind was to run; and so I did, my stupidest decision perhaps. You can feel how panicked I was at that time. Yes exactly, without any hesitation, it started running behind me. I ran for just five seconds or less when I realized that it is impossible to get away from a creature like this. I stopped there and, that dog stopped too. I was looking into it eyes, horrific and full of terror, and it was staring back at mine. I stepped towards it and, to my surprise, it stepped back. I realized that it is scared of me, the same way I am of it; I took an advantage of it, grabbed a small stone from the side of that street and gestured as if I am gonna hit it. To my surprise, it ran away. What a pleasant moment that was; I breathe a sigh of relief.

However, this incidence made me realize something very important and I felt like doing an experiment on it. As soon as I reached home, I took my study text and opened up the topic which I felt was the most difficult. I struggled with it for about 2 hours without eating, thinking or talking to anyone; I succeed at the end. And guess what, that topic area of the syllabus is so strong now that I made my own format, short notes and am teaching it too.

I realized that there is nothing tough/difficult in life. It is our mind which makes things easy and tough for us. We fail to understand this fact and struggle so much in life, wasting much of our time and energy on things which we can do so easily just by thinking that they are easy.

Now I enjoy and feel relaxed while solving those little problems in life. Yet, I feel amazed how we can design our own life and our surroundings just by thinking positive.