What
is Fear?
An example:
There is
teenage boy who has just reached puberty, and has a smaller brother
who sleeps in the same room.
They are very
close and share everything together, they are great friend's.
One night the
younger brother wakes up in the middle of the night and to his shock,
catches the older brother
masturbating
in his bed to an adult magazine. The older brother is taken by
surprise and threatens the younger brother
with bodily
harm if the younger brother says a word to anyone, and gives him a
hard body blow as a warning.
The next day
they both go to school and coincidentally the mother decides to take
the day to clean up
and organize
the kid's bedroom. She finds the porno magazine, she is not mad, but
wants to know who's magazine it is.
She knows it
natural for boys to be curious about their sexuality
When the boys
get home from school, the mother is holding the magazine in her hands
and demands
to know which
one of the kid's magazine it is.
The big
brother gives the younger one a mean look and the younger one, say's
"it mine!"
The younger
brother one knows that his older brother will think he told on him.
So the younger
brother gets a stiff talking to about porno in the household, no big deal.
The older
brother then smacks around the younger brother when they get alone in
the room together,
and takes away
the younger brother access to his comics, music collection, clothes,
video games, basically everything.
The older
brother becomes increasing distant and soon after has little
to do with his
younger brother anymore. Essentially ending friendship.
Why?
Because he
feared ( imagined a negative circumstance ) in which his little
brother told and other people found out.
Then he
imagined further what those other people whoever they were would do,
say to him or treat him like if they found out.
He was so
terrified of his own thoughts. He did harm to his younger brother and
ended their life long friendship
to avoid his
(negative imagination creation) from coming true.
So in effect
beating up his younger brother and ending their friendship, according
to him was
a justified
preventative measure to protect himself from his own imagination.
Also to
protect himself from facing the truth.
So not only is
he protecting himself from his own imagination, he is attempting
to protect
himself from the truth, that he really did get caught masturbating.
Where does
that leave him?
Caught in
limbo, in a world between truth and illusion.
He chose fear
(illusion) over love (truth) for his brother.
In denying the
truth one must fabricate illusion or fiction.
People will
say, "Ooh that's just what brothers are like!"
I can't tell
you how many times I have heard that crap in my life.
What a load of shit!
It's a matter
of basic human respect.
So what is fear?
An imagined
negative circumstance, that you think is real.
Illusion.
It's all in
our head folks!
Your illusion
can kill you, and hurt those around you, even kill them too!
Every heard of
the husband who killed his wife because he thought or
imagined she
was having an affair, only to find out later she wasn't!
It happens all
the time!
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