On fear
“If I think too much ahead, I become terribly frightened”, ” mörkrädd” she said.
In this case “ahead “means future, right?
In Swedish, “mörkrädd” means literally being afraid of darkness. So, we transpose our inner darkness on the ”future”, for what it lies “ahead” of us. But this ”ahead” exists in our imagination only… The future is completely neutral, it has nothing to do with our fear.
We are afraid now, let’s admit this, for it is logical and quite obvious : we refuse to deal with our fear, we are scared like hell of our inner darkness.
Why do we keep projecting our fear on the future, instead of beginning Now!
to carefully explore this dilemma, namely, fear …
Does it really benefit us to continue to fear? Or …
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About julienmatei
I feel un inner urge to express what I see, to communicate and share with others all these impressions. Often the things I see are there, not yet manifest, but waiting... to be observed, talked about, and embraced.
These new insights need another approach, a more vivid curiosity...
Due to fear and prejudice we prefere to see only "the offcial " truth - but THE OFFICIAL TRUTH IS DEAD - being dead, it has nothing to give...
We can continue pretending Death is fascinating or...we can take the trouble to LIVE...
THE NEW has no definition yet...
Again, IT requires another "perception", the courage to apprehend everything differently, from a totally new angle, with new confidence and inquisitive touch. This blogg is not about interesting concepts, it is about participation...finding new solutions, inspiration, togetherness..