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Fear of Success? Or a Bad Case of Laziness?
The concept that some people are actually more afraid of succeeding than of failing is quite wide-spread. As a favorite explanation for someone’s falling short of expectations, this concept has been espoused by many people who have been attempting to justify why they have not stepped out on various opportunities in their lives.
Yet, I question how often those who say they are afraid of success are actually afraid, as they say. Perhaps, I suggest, they are just being lazy. Isn’t it much more socially acceptable to be “afraid of success” than it is to have to admit you are just too lazy to do what it would take to make a difference in the world?
As the saying goes, all it takes for tragedy to happen is for caring and conscious people to do nothing. Personally, I am no longer willing to call people who do nothing “good people.” Doing nothing is, in fact, allowing those with dark, greedy, selfish, violent intentions to destroy whole nations and eco-systems, moral values and decency standards. Doing nothing allows genocide, or white collar crime, or ecological disasters, at levels previously unheard of here on Earth.
In a court of law, the ones who sit by and allow a crime to take place are deemed collaborators, charged “party to a crime,” and they can receive quite significant jail sentences. What, then, is the karma returning to those who sit by without lifting a finger, without bothering to do anything, while the planet is ravaged and populations are starved, tortured, and murdered?
None of us can do all that is needed to change the world. But all of us can do something. Are you doing what you can?
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