Sunday, January 4, 2009

It all boils down to fear, doesn’t it? We are all – all of us – walking around terrified. Afraid of people, afraid of parents and teachers and institutions, afraid of our bosses, our loved ones, and all of us afraid of the future. We’re terrified of living our lives, and just as terrified of not living them.

And yet, most of us won't admit it. We don’t admit that we’re afraid. Some of us pretend we’re not really afraid of everything. We hide our fears, sit down on top of them and hope they don’t move, hope people don’t see them. And sometimes, if we’re really good at hiding our fears, we begin to forget where we put them -- we hide them even from ourselves. Since we can’t find them, we forget they’re there and forget we’re afraid. Nevertheless, we are sitting on our fears, concealing our fears, wrapped in fears that we are afraid to acknowledge. We are afraid of fear itself.