The Rubinshteinic Commentary on Fear

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The Rubinshteinic Commentary on Fear

"It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live." — Marcus Aurelius

Fear is a paralyzer. Fear is a form of anxiety. Fear exists to protect you from harm. Sometimes, there is nothing to fear but fear itself. In other times, the factor of fear is obvious. Furthermore, the opposite of fear is love.

Fear is the opposite of love because love is what binds us together; fear is what makes us apart. The power of love can make peace and rectify the world. The power of fear makes us suspicious and distrustful of other people, thus setting us away from each other.

In the 20's of the 21st century, we live in a very unstable world, marked by political instability, wars and uncertainty. This fear we might feel fuels our survival instinct, to be cautious, to be careful, to make sure not to make mistakes that could harm us in the long run.

Fear leads people to be more protective, thus less vulnerable. The power of love requires us to be vulnerable, to be open enough to one another for the sake of trust and harmony.

The conventional world isn't harmonious. It is marked by competition and by the relentless need to survive another day irrespective of justice.

For the sake of sanity, the larger world is worthy of forsaking.

Nowadays, there is either a lot of safety in groups or alone. When you live as a shadow, you live without causing noise. Without making sudden moves. Living as a shadow is a form of protection from fear factors.

Bravery is the ability to act in spite of fear, whereas cowardice is when fear paralyzes you completely.

I often fear the world, but I still dare to write with my name visible. I dare to write about personal stuff. I dare because I care about a more rectified world, I am carving through Philosocom.

There is a great absence of love in our world. Love leads to cooperation. Love is healthy. Love can reduce stress. Fear creates stress, and we live in stressful times.

When the world is a fearful place to live in, we either have the choice to abstain from it or to live in it despite the fear we may feel.

I choose a mixture of it. I choose to be largely alone, while writing. Because despite of it all, I still want to contribute. I dare contribute.

I have a need to contribute, what to do? I have a need to heartfully give away my articles for free. I have a need to have a heart. I have a need to help through my site, under my own terms. Contributing calms me. Contributing makes me feel better, so I do what helps me feel better. I am not afraid to do what makes me feel better. I dare to act despite of fear, and write in a platform of my own making.

Because all I want is to be a good person that helps people. In this world, we are supposed to mainly care for ourselves. I don't have the heartlessness to care just for myself. I dare care from this world from the safety of my solitude. Solitude, then, becomes a way of victorious life, and not defeatism.

This world concerns me despite my self-imposed exile from it. I keep on Philosocom because I too live in this world, I too am part of this world, despite the fact that I live as a shadow, recovering from saving people by helping them believe in themselves.

I want a better world. I don't want to live my life where I am paralyzed by fear. I want to overcome fear and be myself, shamelessly contributing to this world which has forsaken my dead master.

At the age of 10, I dared saving my late master from herself by being there for her during her harakiri act.

I grew up to be a strong, brave man who lives alone, who wants to live in the shadows of society, while living a comfortable, stable life. I don't want to save people anymore. I want to live normal and write as a lone article craftsman, having very few contacts around me on my journey.

This is what I have chosen for myself because this world is unstable. I enjoy playing it safe. Under love I don't want to take heroic risks anymore. I want to care for myself and for my loved one.

I will always want a better world than this one. I want a world where people are not afraid to speak up their truths. I act according to the very change I want to see in this world, and I want to do so for as long as I can.

I don't want to be succumbed by fear. I want to speak up without retaliation. I want a better world, where there is harmony and love, not disharmony and paralyzing fear.

I want to keep inspiring. I want to serve as a beacon of hope, to those who want to write too. My resistance is only through writing. I to be violent. Like Ghandi, I support nonviolence.

My heart tells me that this is the right thing to do. To rectify the world through Philosocom. Fearlessly, shamelessly, bravely.

This world needs more love and less fear. More courage to be vulnerable, and less succumbing fear. Vulnerability is how closure is made. Vulnerability is how we can trust each other more. Trust reduces stress, trust makes us feel safer.

And in a world marked by instability, safety is what we need most. To feel safe with each other, to not be too afraid. This is a world marked by cowardice. We cannot love each other if we are afraid of opening ourselves up to each other.

This world needs more love, and less fear.