Fear’s voice will say, “We can’t let that happen. You know what it’ll be like if that happens.” The truth is that you don’t know what it will be like if that happens. The feared thing, almost always, is the thing that hasn’t happened yet. That is where fear lives, in the not yet, the not now, the not me. Fear is full of uninformed anticipation masquerading as heightened awareness. Fear knows enough to mobilize, stir, run, and fight, but it knows next to nothing about the feared thing. Fear is not knowledge.
