Fear is itself afraid. It won’t just come out and say: “Here I am, I’m Ms Fear and I’m paying you a visit. I’m only around for as long as you try to avoid me. But if you pay attention to me, look me in the eyes, see me properly, Im gone (at least for a while).”
No, she won’t say that. She would generally say: “Im not afraid, I’ve got this. I’m OK, yes, I’m OK”.
But then it would come up in different ways, wearing different make-up, different masks.
I’ve been noticing some of the masks these days. I’ll call them “homo” – Latin for man.
It works quite simple: you put the homo- mask on and it starts talking/thinking for you. Check it out!
1. homo spoiled-child-icus: “It’s enough! I want it to end; and it should end Now. Because I say so. And if it takes longer, Im going to put up a tantrum. You wait and see!”
2. homo doomed-icus: “Oh my God, we are all doomed. We are all going to die!” or “Oh, my God, I am going to die. Oh noooo!”
3. homo masochist-icus: “It is not bad enough. It should be worst, we deserve worst for what we did to the Planet and to the other fellow animals”. Which is kind of true. Luckily Nature’s mind is wiser and Kind. And maybe invites us to discover these qualities in ourselves too.
4. homo conspiracist-icus: “I know the Truth (thunder noise for special effects). There is no such think as COVID 19. There is no such thing as a crisis- the hospitals are actually empty.” Or: “there is such a thing as COVID 19 and it’s the Chinese, or maybe the Americans that manufactured it in the … Lab (evil look). You are being brain-washed to believe what the establishment wants you to believe but I have … my Sources (Crash Clang- Cymbal noise). Oh, my Sources are different than the Sources of my fellow homo conspiracist-icus but these are details.”
5. homo give-it-to-me-hardus: “Look how China built hospitals in days and did the testing in no time and eradicated the disease. I won’t mention that China took about 2 months to recognise that there is problem and that during that time people identifying the problem were treated themselves as problems. Many of them died. But these are details. No, China is a strong country. It behaved … manly; it did not waisted time discussing, analysing (brrr, horrible words). It’s not a p ussy like the EU. It acted maaan, it acted.”
6. homo racist-icus: “Yet another wonderful opportunity to be narrow-minded, racist and hateful. It’s the Chinese, or the Gypsy: it’s their fault for spreading the disease. It’s obvious”.
Homo racist-icus and homo give-it-to-me-hardus enjoy very much being together. They have wonderful fantasies where their borders will be closed and all the “aliens” sent back home (although aliens’ home may very well be the very country also hosting the 2 specimen. But, these are details). Once the borders will be closed, they will live in peace and harmony. They will be free-maaaan-free. No disease will ever enter their pure country. “Like North Korea? Noooo, way better.”
7. homo spiritual-icus: “I have already sorted out all my fears, traumas and wounds. I’ve also cleaned my chakras- all of them, meditated for the last 10 years. I’m all zen and actually been living in a kind of isolation for the last 5 years anyway. And that’s not because I became really annoying for most of my friends. No, it’s because, being more on my own came to me, I deeply felt in my heart to do so. So now, I am soooo zen, have I mentioned that already? And I can help you. Yes, just breathe: take a deep breath iiiiinnnnn and a deeeeeeep breaaaath ooooout. Breath through the fear. Yeeeees”.
“It’s actually a good advice but Im going to serve it to you mostly in the moments that you cannot hear it. That would make me feel even more zen and in control. And so much cooler.”
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