Where does fear come from?
Children are afraid of the dark.
What lurks out in the space unseen, unknown, unfelt, unplanned for?
But is fear a thing?
Is it something that can be touched?
Is it a monster under the bed?
Is it an entity that roams and attacks us without warning?
Or is it something inside of us?
Is it something we tell ourselves?
Specifically, is fear about us and not about fear itself?
There are, of course, many things to fear.
Spiders.
Paper cuts.
Snakes.
Auto accidents.
Plane flight.
Job loss.
Illness.
Death.
These are all things that, in their specific ways, can stop our plans.
But is that what fear is really?
Is fear a reaction to a force that has changed our schedule?
The COVID virus.
This virus has changed the plans of everyone on the planet.
It is going about what viruses do it is spreading and multiplying.
Our deaths are not its purpose.
Killing off its host is not suitable for any host in the long run because it doesn't allow it to succeed.
It wants cooperation so it can live.
Fear.
Our plans changed.
Those that deny the science are living in fear of the truth.
Their non-cooperation with social distancing and wearing a mask is couched behind a veil of personal freedom.
Our brothers and sisters are afraid of the virus and believe spitting in the face of reason will allow them to dodge the grim reaper.
Their fear allows them to take no responsibility for the despair, the death they will cause.
Ultimately fear is a scapegoat that creates a narrative of denial of personal responsibility to the community and self.
The Devil made me do it.
The virus needs no help to kill.
But who needs our help are those who live in fear.
America is going to live through a time that it has never seen before. Simple algebra can demonstrate real fear.
As the statistics demonstrate, only 5% of the US population has been exposed to the virus, with 85K deaths.
What happens when short of no vaccine and 100% of the population is exposed, how many people will have perished?
North of 1.5 million Americans.
That's the number the CDC has been gagged from telling.
That's the human tragedy that's being kept from the airwaves.
That is a real fear.
Yet fear can stimulate courage.
Fear can grow purpose.
Fear can challenge a people and a person to do what is right.
Without fear, we wouldn't know what love is.
Love will see all of us through this time.
Love will brush aside the terror of night to reveal the truth of the day.
See those that are living in fear and give them hope by your example.
Wear your mask with pride that you are saving other's lives, not just your own.
It is only through looking out for each other that we together will get to our joy.
Darkness is the nature of the universe; each of us is a light in that eternal night, which is why we each have an obligation to tend that light called hope.
The moon silent went on a stroll between the stars, and when it looked down on the earth there, it saw even more stars all the same above and below.
Peace.
DFrey
