We must all face the fact that there is always the potential reality that the worst can happen. I often look back through history to get a clear picture of how humanity sometimes collides with horror and see that death and suffering can just be a fleeting moment, and then life moves on. I think of all those who suffered and died in natural disasters and human atrocities, what pain they must have endured till the end. Upon acceptance of all that, I see the future as being open to any and all possibility and therefore fear takes the back seat, fear won't accomplish anything except wasting the time you spend living with it.
Yes I know about fear being part of the survival mechanism blah blah blah. Point is, I could be homeless tomorrow, living on the street scrounging through dumpsters for a scrap of food or I could win the lotto and become a multi-millionaire and all between those too extremes. Be thankful for what you have because it can always be worse than it is. On Jul 15, 11:43 am, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > Industries and markets rise and fall on confidence. Confidence rises > and falls on perceived instability. The keyword is perceived which > frequently, having no relation to reality, causes skewed results in > the marketplace and on the hearth. The antithesis of confidence is > fear which even moreso rises and falls on perceptions. > > So what do we do? Convince ourselves there is nothing to be afraid > of? I think not. That's a foolish approach since there are very real > threats in the world. Convince ourselves that we can handle whatever > it is we fear? That sounds a bit better but still bound by lack of > face to face reality to a large degree. My own method is to just put > fear out of my mind and go blithely forth to whatever awaits if I > must. That also is the playground of fools. > > There has to be a mindset wherein one feels comfortable facing the > unknown that is a rational confrontation, where one can feel the > breadth and depth of the fear without caving under it's enormous > threat and reacting instinctively, where rational analysis can reveal > a truer nature of the perceived threat which may prove not be a threat > at all since it seems most of the things we fear most are those we > create in our own minds and hearts and exist nowhere else but there. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
