Saturday, April 5, 2008

Strength

Anger and fear are some of the basic negative emotions that we feel everyday. They are actually very closely related to each other. Fear is an emotion directed towards things that we perceive to be a threat to us that we want to eliminate, but it is usually out of our means to do so. Anger are emotions directed towards things that we perceive to be a threat but within our means to eliminate. Anger is a behavioral pattern designed to warn aggressors to stop their threatening behavior. These feelings are usually synonymous with hatred. There is only 1 thing in common here, that these emotions are only directed towards things which we view are a threat to us. Why do we feel they are a threat? It is because they make us feel weak, and we hate that, thus we show hostility and aggression towards those threats in order to appear strong, but the truth is this: Deep down inside is a extremely weak existence who uses appearances to cover up for their lack of strength.

There are many examples of these: People who go around picking fights with others, People who put on a brave front and seeks generally fearful experiences in order to portray their fearlessness to others, all these are forced fearlessness and false strength because the purpose of these actions are to express their strength to others to cover up for their own lack of weakness in themselves. People who seek to overcome their fears do so only because they fear in the first place; the same logic applies here as well: People who seek to portray a sense of strength in themselves only do so only because they are weak in the first place.

If you are truly unaffected by something, you are not obligated to act upon it. There is a difference between forcing yourself to not fear and not fearing. Take for example: You notice an ant, if you do not feel threatened by it, you will leave it alone, but if it crawls on your skin, then you feel threatened by it and attempt to kill it. In other words, if you are really strong, you do not feel that others are a threat because they are unworthy of your time and effort. This is how someone who is strong, powerful and fearless would act; this is the highest level of strength.

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