"You can't just live in fear all the time!"
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"You can't just live in fear all the time!"
Actually, I can, and I am extremely good at it because of years of practice. What you mean is that I *shouldn't* live in fear all the time. Which is completely true. I would be absolutely thrilled not to live in fear, and will get started as soon as the world stops being utterly terrifying.
What I will not do is blithely business-as"usual" myself off a cliff just because your preferred way to deal with risk and danger is denial. And frankly it's pretty frustrating that you're pretending everything is fine, because that actively prevents you from helping us deal with with these real, substantial, but ultimately solvable problems.
Fear is what tells you to run from the bear. Being unafraid doesn't mean that you are no longer surrounded by bears. You can't be brave and face your fear until you have acknowledged that there's something to be afraid of.
