The things we fear the most

Oct 01, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – I told the Guru about a Tik Tok video I had seen of a very wealthy man who had done something that, at first, seemed rather strange. He had spent much of his life building wealth. He had a comfortable home, good food, security and all the things that money can provide.

Yet he had identified the thing he feared most. Poverty. So he decided not merely to think about poverty. He would instead deliberately experience, in a small way, the thing he feared. Every week, he would sleep on a hard floor. He would eat very simple meals, choosing some of the cheapest food available. He would strip away the comforts that had become normal to him and remind himself that he could live without them.