For reasons I have articulated at length and for some time, there are ample reasons to be afraid. Nearly all the people operating our apparatus of State seem to be for sale, and there is plenty of money to buy them with.
If President Trump had accomplished nothing else, making this obvious to the mass of actually woke Americans would have been sufficient to call him a great President. How anyone remains asleep when we know so much is a mystery I continue to puzzle over. No doubt it mostly relates to laziness, complacency, intellectual obesity, and the primacy of fear as a human motivation.
But something hit me yesterday I will share. I was wondering, how can anyone look at all this and not be afraid? And then I realized I needed to invert it: when danger is PRESENT fear is appropriate and natural, but not until then.
Here is the thing: why should I feel, all day and every day, what is only appropriate when action is possible? This is how you lose life. I am not protecting my life with this fear, I am shrinking it. If you want a long, good, free life, START NOW. You can’t control when someone might take it from you, but for God’s sake don’t take it from yourself.
Now, like most things, this is easier said than done, but this is an interesting hobby, no? Learning to live without fear when no immediate threat is present, no gun pointing at my head, without also falling asleep?
This is a great game. I am going to start trying to play it effectively every day moving forward. And if I lose my fear, then it will still come back when I need it for something.