The sun sets on another day…
It was a beautiful sunset, filled with little colors and fun moments. I really am not sure how it could have been much better, except maybe to be a little warmer. As the sky slid towards night I wondered what tomorrow would bring since daylight savings time was going to make a mess out of work schedules. Ohh well.
I was in my Saturday writing group today and wrote a nice little poem that contained an easy message about the light of fear and following the wrong light. The issue was very direct, the picture we were writing on was of the chandelier made of bones inside of a room covered in skeletons. Many people wrote about fear, and I wrote about fear as it pertained to the world today.
I have tried very hard to purge fear from my life. The things that are akin to fear with me now revolve around protecting others or ensuring safe in one way or another. There are significant complexities, but I don’t feel fear as I did when I was a child. I think many people still do and when fear is shone a path it often looks like a bright light to those who are affected by it. Those people flock to fear like moths to a flame never realizing that their wings will burn if they get too close. Fear destroys. Fear makes life a little worse.
With that in mind I am hopeful that we can overcome fear and find a way to see truth instead of manipulation by those things that scare us. If you read my books of short stories you will find them filled with different ways of objectifying or intellectualizing fear. These are the easy ways, but there are harder ways that will come down upon us if we are not careful. Try to look at the logical side and set the fear aside. I know it’s sometimes easy to embrace fear, but try to embrace life instead, just for the fun of it.
So as the sun sets on another day, I hope you take a moment and realize that fear is just telling you to avoid something but it’s not really giving you good reasons. Find the reasons behind fear, and along the way I hope you enjoy life every day, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, love life, and boo…