Thoughts on fear
I want to write about something I have been struggling with and something I see others struggling with too.
Everything seems to constantly push us to self concentrate. A world of constant comparison via social media and even the comparison within ourselves. A world full of statuses and social positions, as if doing or looking a certain way is the essence of our being. Status or social position will never satisfy. They can only drown us deeper and deeper into the misery. Because that imagined state is never there. The liberals call it neoliberalism/market economy, psychologists describe it as an unhealthy pride. Such pride feeds on fear of not losing what’s accomplished or not missing out on the next new thing.
Spiritually fear constrains us into “doers”. In this way, it isolates us from being those we are meant to be. This fear is introspective and isolating. It prevents us seeing that we actually live not in isolation but in connection. The connection I talk about is to a source of life and to the people around. Strangely, when we turn our gaze away from ourselves towards what matters, then we satisfy our deepest needs and desires – being loved. From the place of being enough, feeling that we have enough, we can pay attention to the outside of us – the environment and the very moment of being. Then we live a constructive and meaningful life with love.