without fear

“Para hacer magia, hacen falta cojones”. 

raised in fear; in the system of shadows

System of punishment

exposed - dragged

the system that controls and instigates the deepest forms of human behavior

Fear destabilizes,

paralyzes and makes you quiet

Makes you shrug into a ball of wrong thoughts,

of imaginary self-imposed consequences

that one day you will inevitably face

and even worse than that,

most of the times you think you deserve.

 

It is the way for redemption

- they say.

The way to a successful after-life,

as if any of them knew what they are talking about.

 

Living with fear,

 living in the insides and within boundaries.

Living according to a made-up system

 that someone smart enough created

in order to serve the purposes of those that aren’t afraid.

And we call that living.

 

Read that again.

“To serve the purposes of those that are not afraid.”

“Be careful “ seems to be everyone’s favorite new advice

And if you think about it –

careful of what? From what?

For whom? For me or for you?

What is this constant need of transferring fear into others?

 Urging them to feel a bit or a bunch of whatever shitty shit we are feeling 

The need to get rid of some of my fear by giving it to you,

completely unsolicited

as if it was going to protect us against our own darkness…

that’s endearing.

 

The need to say out-loud how fucking afraid we are

by putting it on others,

by pretending we care for others.

or on the other hand,

how unconsciously secretly jealous we are

to see that the person in front of us is daring to say

or do  - something we have told ourselves repeatedly

we will never be capable of pursuing

 

- what rightfully is called Admiration.

 

So then,

is that fear?

The antithesis of admiration?

or the counter reaction to it?

Or the desperate need for it but the continuous negation of what we feel

or who we are.

 

As such, and in the contrary,

I will advise you to stop projecting fear,

to stop talking your fear into others’ plans.

 to Stop punishing,

to stop warning

and to stop educating in constant threats.

And start living - if possible,

without fear

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