Fear is a purely human trait, a basic human emotion, caused by awareness of a real or imagined danger or threat….
Fear fills people's souls with anxiety, uncertainty, insecurity, a feeling of indifference for the phenomena, the situations and events of social life, and inspires in them a feeling of futility and renunciation of all effort, turning them into helpless instruments of what appears or is possible, to whom they freely entrust the management of their lives.
It is a fact that the primary source of fear is ignorance and ignorance, since we are afraid of,what we don't know...
Until to know the laws of nature, we fear natural phenomena!
Until to know the true God, we fear the gods!
Until to know the reality beyond the grave, we fear death!
Until to know the man, we fear the other, the neighbor, our neighbor!
Until to know ourselves, we are afraid of ourselves!
And the more we fear the more we entrench ourselves, we are so isolated, the more cautious we become, the more carelessly we behave, the more passively we live and think! As aptly said, no passion robs the power of energy and reason from the mind of man so much as fear.
It is this fear that, like a black cloud, has settled on the souls of Greeks in recent years and is robbing them of their energy and reason, the elements required to deal with situations and overcome difficulties.
The modern Greek is afraid... He is afraid of tomorrow, he fears for himself, for his children...
Perhaps not without reason, with what he goes through every day, with the flood of information, of news and -real or not- upcoming new measures, existing.
Endless - by those who have the power to do so, and they do- cultivating fear of the future, about the possible upheavals or even disasters captures every shred of optimism, creativity and competitiveness.
The pervasive fear, with the implication that nothing can change, nothing we can change, widely creates a sense of nihilism, it leads to a worse form of voluntarism and alienation of our personal freedom!
Thus we renounce any desire to participate in society, we don't care about developments, we passively accept the consequences and…submit, "cowardly and inept adamas, waiting, maybe, some shame".
But a condition for the miracle to happen, to get rid of the fear of people and situations and live freely and creatively, is to wake up from lethargy and apathy, that any impasses cause us, to regain our soul and to maintain and preserve our individual autonomy, defending and reacting strongly to any attempt to undermine it.
And if we feel alone, powerless to face the waves of the storm, that threaten to sink the imaginary ship of life and of our country, in this difficult time of actual or even possible danger, we need the catalytic power of faith more than ever.