(#6387) Our fears are a tool to help us understand!

      If you haven't loved then you don't know how devasting fear can be. Just the thought of losing a loved one shocks and bewilders my own experience. When the loss of a loved one actually occurs the real pain of a gut punch ensues. Fear can manifest itself in physical ways that sometimes, albeit only sometimes for a moment, I wish I had never loved at all. That is how excruciating fear can become. But fear in other ways, although scary, it is useful to remind us just how important something is in our lives when it is threatened with removal. Being afraid that our democracy for instance is tilting toward extinction is a fearful thought when pondered.
     That is the moment I find myself in and surely tens of millions in America feel the same. We are not being attacked from the outside by forces that want to keep people under tyranny. No, we are being attacked from the inside by basically the republican party and their chosen gold plated wannabe man/god. The fear that the many of us are feeling, who are never going to submit to the current anti democracy junta, is a bit overwhelming. Fear is like that. It can paralyze us when it should rally us. We are human and respond to fear in a variety of ways. One way is to shy away and avoid the fear. Another way is to take the fear and examine it. Why are we feeling the fear is the question? The answer is that like love, the fear represents a possible loss of something that matters to us. Only then can we take action to alleviate the fear!      When someone is trying to take something from me that isn't theirs then I resist. Much like the fear of losing my democracy to someone who would also take it from everyone else. Even more than scare me, that infuriates me. So although I may experience fear it is nothing in comparison to my anger! Even if you are different than me and aren't as angry as I am at least use your fear to understand what is happening and then either join the rest of us for a solution to eliminate the fear or at least don't hinder our attempts at correcting the situation causing the fear. I have learned over a lifetime that fear is just an extension of my early warning system and because of that needs my immediate attention.