"Landscape With the Fall of Icarus" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder |
YourGreatestFear sounds like atmosphere. Space capsules
descend into the atmosphere where they require shields to protect them from the
enormous heat that's produced. YourGreatestFear is a similarly dangerous zone
that's entered when a host of contingencies all occur at the same time.
YourGreatestFear.com could be the name of a site which delineates specific
kinds of conditions, but everyone is familiar with common instances like freezing
up in front of an audience, losing your job and coming home to find out that
your significant other is leaving you, having it pour when it rains, and hoping
you will hit a homer and have all your wishes fulfilled when you're on the
verge of striking out and finding that literally nothing you have hoped for
will come to pass. This is a situation which might be familiar to those who
dabble in the Daedalus Icarus myth. Your grandiose or stratospheric wishes end
up leading to YourGreatestFear which is that you will be left high
and dry. Like the atmosphere YourGreatestFear is a region where acceleration
(of wishes) produces enormous resistance which can result in complete burn out. You approach YourGreatestFear with
trepidation since you know it's something that's loaded with obstacles and
which by its very nature is going to produce the exact reverse of everything
you desire. If this weren’t the case then there would be nothing to be afraid
of. But YourGreatestFear can also build inordinate strength since by having YourGreatestFear occur you bring about spiritual growth. As Nietzsche once said,
“that which does not kill us, makes us stronger.”
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