You Choose to Buy Into the Fear or Not
When you recognize this, you gain more control and empower yourself.
Fear is the ultimate drug. It’s more pervasive than anything illicit or prescription you can acquire. It’s everywhere you turn, and often so innocuous that it’s right in front of you but hidden in plain sight.
Sometimes it’s made cutesy with phraseology like FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). It’s often used to sell you anything and everything from beer to cars to services. Buy this, that, or the other thing, or your worst fears of suffering, being left out, and looking bad will come to pass. Most of the politics in the world play off fear to get so-called leaders elected.
Unchecked, you will live your life in fear because this is a fear-based society. Social media, billboards, TV, radio, everywhere you turn your fears are being played.
Unchecked, fear will direct you subconsciously to do things that might be utterly against your best interests. Going back to politics, look how certain people convince you they will save you from the artificial fear (usually of “the other”) that’s ruining your life, while in truth they’re robbing you blind and taking away your freedoms.
This is how it will continue to be, and there’s little you or I can do to change the big picture, and…
