SOMETHING TO CONTEPMPLATE:
Today let's speak about FEAR, "false events appearing real".
Fear has been our closest companion for much of our lives.
Not loud fear.
Not hysterical fear.
The quiet, vigilant kind.
The kind that scans rooms, reads faces, anticipates discord.
The kind that never fully rests.
This fear did not arrive because we are weak.
It arrived because we are unattuned and unprotected.
Fear came early in life.
It learned our nervous systems before language did.
It taught our bodies to stay alert, to stay small, to stay agreeable, to stay alive.
It wired itself into our breaths, our guts, our sleep.
Long before we had words for abandonment, scarcity, or unsafety, our bodies knew them.
Later, fear learned new disguises.
It became compliance.
It became people-pleasing.
It became the need to be understood.
It became the terror of being misunderstood.
It told us that love could disappear without warning.
It told us that belonging was conditional.
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