Our Deepest Fear

This Tuesday, our group watched a movie in class named Couch Carter. In this movie, a profound but elusive words impressed me.     "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't insecure around you. We were all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear. Our presence automatically liberates others. "       At first, I had no idea what does these words mean. After I came back to hostel, I found that this words originated from Marianne Williamson's book, A Return to Love, and this words were also used by the former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela in his Inaugural Speech in 1994.      In my opinion, this words mean that we fear because we are afraid that we cannot be the best of ourselves. As the words"we were all meant to shine", we all have the potentiality to make things perfect. However, in real life, people usually cannot release all their potentiality and the reason for this is nothing but fear. Sometimes I cannot do well in my presentation only because I fear I cannot do well. I could not figure out an item, which I should have figured it out, in college entrance exam, because I feared I cannot do it during that exam. Our fear of not being the best of ourselves block us to be the best of ourselves, and this fear is our deepest fear. Imagine if we know we are bound to fail at an exam or a presentation, then we will not fear anymore but accept our certain failure. We fear because we know we can always do better.     We should conquer that fear. as the words "there is nothing enlightened about shrinking", we should not give in to that fear but to face it and try to eradicate it. It is hard but it is possible.