The Old Chief Mshlanga Short Story

How many opportunities do we lose because of fears, unreasonable wariness? Our frights sound distinctively, telling everyone something unique, unlike, special. However, its only action is to hide and paralyze our will. Fear is the natural reaction caused by the environment. Fears arise as a reaction to certain events. And the root of all of them is the conviction that we are not able to cope with life. But for any person, it is very important to be able to overcome fear, because otherwise he will not be able to achieve in his life any, even the smallest heights, not to mention achieving success or realizing ones dreams. Fear is a signal that says something needs to be changed for a harmonious and effective life. And only we decide: to deal …show more content…
Being raised in the family, which was intolerant to their servants and treated them as if they were not humans, she learned to act the same way, feeling like princes as if Africans owe her something. Nkosikaas is well aware of the fact that when Africans are on her path they should move aside. “In front of me, perhaps a couple of hundred yards away, a group of three Africans came into sight… I whistled the dogs close in to my skirts and let the gun swing in my hand… But they came on steadily… I was angry. It was cheek for a native not to stand off a path, the moment he caught a sight of you.” This means that even though she seems to be fearless and brave by having complete power over these people, that regardless of her young age she is already an authority for Africans and yet she always wandered around the farm with her weapon and dogs to protect her, thus this shows that she is afraid, but because of her curiosity to explore the land, she found a way to trick her fear by having these attributes next to her. Even though she was afraid to walk alone miles away from her house, she found a …show more content…
These thoughts represent fear which holds us back from our dreams. Let’s take for example the story “House Taken Over”, according to Irene’s brother, she devotes her leisure knitting and she does make necessities for both of them such sweater for winter, socks, morning robes and bed jackets, all these outfits they use in their daily life. However, it was surprising for the narrator what he found at the bottom of the chiffonier, it was: “replete with mothballs, was filled with shawls, white, green, lilac”, he only thought she was knitting because she could not find anything else to do, however when he saw work such as shawls these attributes are fancy and not for daily use at home, especially when there is a variety of them, this could’ve been her dream to set up a shop which would show her talent to others and she could’ve been successful designer and begin to knit for others, this would become not only a leisure activity but her life. However, because of lack of confidence in herself, she is afraid to start such huge deal- her own business. This means that if she would