Fear and Wonder
A person is not afraid if he or she can acts.
A cat chased by a dog is not afraid. If the cat were afraid, the dog would catch the cat because the first effect of fear is ‘freezing’. Fear is the paralysis of an impulse.
The cat has no time to be afraid. It’s too busy making the right movements, strategies, or tactics to escape to be frozen.
Lockdown, as a mechanism, is very similar to fear.
The time to form a habit is 27 days.
It’s been two years since I had to show green codes and measure my temperature merely to enter the supermarket. What kind of development in us, in me, will all this have?
Now, all around the globe, we are using technology to find new ways to stay at a distance. Still, we can, and probably we should, use our technological knowledge in different ways.
Why do we want to be far away from each other?
Is it because we are clustered into a twenty million people city dreaming of becoming fifty million?
But this would be too simple. After all, humans are their cities. Humans are above all citizens ever since we decided not to be monkeys anymore.
The demand for those distances is a symptom of some fear. The virus has solely made overflowing.
But what are we afraid of?
However, there is a solution. The opposite of fear is wondering. When you were twelve or eleven, or even earlier, the world was attractive, if you remember. Why? Because you positively wanted to discover new wonders.
