Fear - The People's Loss of Power

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Fear creates the wall we build to feel safe within. It’s the wall that hides the consequences of fear’s existence from the comfort of the safety within.

 

Fear is an emotion that overrides intellect. The emotion of kneejerk reaction overrides the intellect of pondered action.

 

Fear creates an unwillingness to wait to know. It demands the perception of an immediate answer, even if it turns out to be wrong. A right answer is only discovered over time, which fear won’t permit.

 

Fear is the marketing plan to entice us to sell our power of the people in exchange for our accepting the illusion of comfort. Our power once sold is lost to us forever.

 

Fear creates the belief that we must consider ourselves incapable of fighting it. We have no chance. We have no ability. We have no confidence. We have no desire. We can’t grow to meet the challenge; we must shrink before it. We must find a champion, a hero. And neither of those will be found in those of us who fear.

 

Fear creates the desire to submit to the dominance of others. We will submit to anyone who steps forward with a promise we choose to believe. We will call them a leader, until we discover we were wrong.

 

Fear clouds our ability to see leadership. Leadership for a new crisis isn’t something that happens in an instant. It rises to the occasion. It grows to understand the fear in order to defeat it. It doesn't use fear as an advantage.

 

Leadership doesn’t blindly swing, it purposefully attacks. Leadership understands that there are defeats in battle that are necessary to victory of war. Fear considers any defeat in battle to be the loss of war. Leadership will defeat fear, unless those who fear defeat leadership.

 

Fear is our emotional reaction to the extremely unexpected. It’s our choice how we manage it. The loss or victory of fear depends upon our choices for managing it. The damage of its consequences outside its walls depends upon our choices for managing it.

 

Just a fellow American