--- title: Before I am dead! date: 2008-12-12T09:16:12Z modified: 2008-12-12T09:16:12Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/before-i-am-dead/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 526 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fear.jpg" author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-12-12T09:16:12Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![fear](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/fear.jpg) waking up drenched in sweat realizing it’s nothing but a nightmare I get up to drink a glass of water to drown the fear that woke me up! sins I have done plenty I do not know if the good I did is enough to grant me a passage to heaven or worse, born again as human; never cared for what people [thought](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/thought-games.md), never worried about those who left, never a minute I spent crying over split milk, what had to happen, had to happen! what I was yesterday is what I am today, yet people think I have changed, I wonder why! I take life as it comes no expectations and no demands! with the guillotine waiting at every step, uncertainty looms large over tomorrow, I fear I need to live every moment of today before I am dead! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. – Anne Frank Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves. – Bonaro W. Overstreet Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear. – Cheri Huber Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. – Don Miguel Ruiz