i am watching "Eye of the Leopard" on The Discovery Channel and learned that baboons and leopards are not best of friends... kinda like lions and hyenas...
in one segment of the show, a standoff was captured between a group of baboons and a leopard... apparently baboons usually get the upperhand in such show downs especially when the whole baboon troop is involved... but this time it was different... the leopard stepped with confidence and showed disdain for the baboons...
tired of being harassed, it turned and faced the baboons with its canines exposed and eyes fixed on the alpha male of the baboon troop... i started to laugh at this point... if the leopard feared the baboon, it was not obvious... its confidence was threatening beyond what the baboons could withstand, and eventually they scampered away... i laughed even harder - not at the baboons but at how confidence can defuse even the most aggressive threat...
FEAR MASKED AS CONFIDENCE...CAN BE EASILY SHATTERED BY TRUE CONFIDENCE...
the most interesting thing about this realization, is the many times i have employed this to internal threats - when i begin to feel fear or uncertainity, i find it easy to overcome such fear by being confident... even when i try to mask my internal fear by "psyching" up myself, i realize that it is only true confidence that counts...
if fear is a venom, then i have realized the antidote...
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Funny, I was thinking about this today. Was watching that Real World/Road Rules Challenge nonsense on MTV (yeah, I know that's pathetic) and saw how this loud chick Tina was taunting Beth and eventually ended up swinging at her.
I thought to myself: "Now had it been a black chick from the hood, would Tina behave the same way?" Probably not.
It's a little bit of "empty barrels make the most noise" and "duppy know who fi frighten"...
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