What is fear?

Question from the Internet:

“Does fear equal interest?”

Yes, fear equals interest. If I have no interest in something I do not have fear. Fear is a sense of losing something that is important for me, losing something I am interested in.

And there are different fears.

By default, driven by our inherently self-centered, self-serving, self-justifying, and exploitative nature, through our totally introverted worldview, we fear losing what we have, what is important to us.

But there is a different kind of fear which comes from “love”, when another, what others have becomes more important to me than what I have, what I might lose.

This is how mothers for example fear for their children driven by the natural instincts they have towards their offspring.

And then there is an even higher fear, trepidation when we finally understand our own, unique, irreplaceable, crucially important role in the system of reality, like a little cell, suddenly understanding that without its perfect, unconditional contribution to the health of the body, the body might die.

This is the kind of fear, trepidation we all need to reach consciously by understanding the globally integrated, interdependent world, humanity, Nature where we are all crucially important, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing cells, where the perfect, unconditional mutual contribution of each cell is necessary for the wellbeing, survival of the whole.