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When I was little I feared the darkness,
when older the roaring ocean.
Now, surrounded by an invisible killer,
where is the fear? I know I should be terrified
and I'm thinking about this strange paradox
that even though I can see and hear about the consequences
of the Corona Pandemic with all of its deadly Reality,
I can't feel the fear that should have hit me:
Is it because it can't be seen?
Can't be felt?
- but in the darkness, I couldn't see anything
and were terrified thou.
- in the midst of the vast sea I couldn't feel
the force of the depth and were anxious thou.
Is it because this pandemic is so overwhelming
deadly that my deepest survival instincts pull away the fear?
And yet something around in the society are remarkable changed,
not that visible but recognizable...
 
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The first time I consulted the I Ching concerning my personal relation to it, was on the 4' of April 2021, but with anxiety.
I received hex. 30.4

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This is from Gregory C. Richters translation (Chinese characters added)
When looking at it more than half a year later it stroked me that this actually is a good description of it... the pandemic I mean.

(It seems to be written in five rhyming lines... ? )
 

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It's a poetic piece of writing Surnevs, kind of reads like a poem with the 'roaring ocean' and the 'vast sea', very evocative, interestingly written but I don't think your lack of fear is unusual is it?

I mean people aren't generally walking about in a state fear are they? They may be cautious/careful but I don't see frightened.

Some people worry more than others, some have more cause to worry than others depending on where they live and their vulnerability but fear? I haven't met anyone since Covid started who was actually frightened. I'm lucky enough to live in a country where the government took it seriously, I know in other countries it would have been a lot more scary but even so i don't think people spend all day in abject terror of Covid.

I haven't felt any fear, it doesn't keep me awake nights, it just is what it is. I can have the vaccine, I can take necessary precautions and the rest is out of my hands. That's how it is, trembling in fear doesn't seem either a helpful or common reaction as far as I can see.

I know plenty of very old people, the most vulnerable, who aren't frightened- indeed I don't know any who are. Not sure why you feel your lack of fear is unusual?

Or do you mean rather than fear concern? Do you mean you don't care ? But you used the word 'fear' so I have to take it that is what you meant.

I can't feel the fear that should have hit me:
Well I don't know anyone who has the fear at all. I do know someone who is neither vulnerable nor elderly and has been vaccinated 3 times now who still won't visit a supermarket but that's different. Some people are just neurotic about that kind of thing.

I see no purpose in fear and anyway terror can't be sustained over years, normal life goes on.
 
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Hi Trojina, The lack of fear where fear should be present: an invisible deadly enemy killing without purpose is frightening - but no one seems to have fear. Could it be because this pandemic is so overwhelming deadly that our deepest survival instincts pulls away the fear? I ask because I have a feeling that this is not normal. But OK, I see that this spontaneously written feeling about it can be seen from your point as unnecessary to put into writing as it, as You points out, is commonly known - yet not commonly known the way I have expressed it, or: to see this threatening danger and it's strange effect on us. Strange as tried to be explained above - with my words / in my point of view.
Yes, I tried to lend toward the poetic well aware that it needs a lot more knowhow in the language in which it's written than I possess ! I'll go on despite that and promise that tomorrow it's a bit better and the day after tomorrow it's better than a bit better and - so on.
That's it,
about it.

O dear, my Grammarly program just tells me that my tone is TOO direct. Sorry about that. Not my intention I promise.
 

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I like how you write!

I don't mean you shouldn't write about fear and the virus I was only saying I think you aren't strange that you don't fear it as most people, around me at least, just live their lives as usual. After all we can all die at any time from all kinds of things.

Or maybe when you wrote the first post you weren't only writing about yourself, which I thought you were, but everyone? You are saying why aren't we all more frightened, in a poetic way?

I think driving on the motorway is a terrifying thing when I think about it. My attention only has to drift for a moment and the consequences could be dire. But when I am driving on the motorway despite the dangers I'm not frightened. Getting Covid is horrible but so is getting cancer, being in a car crash, getting all kinds of diseases, dying in war and of course even if we survive all that we face slow degeneration into old age, frailty, sickness and death. So we are all heading deathwards anyway.

This is why we are not frightened. We are not frightened because being alive is a terminal condition anyway, we know that, we're used to the idea. It only goes one way but our brains/survival mechanisms can't be geared to full consciousness of the fact of death all the time, it wouldn't serve life. So how can we be perpetually scared of a deadly virus when there is and always has been a continual threat of death lurking our entire lives, we just submerge it because life wants to live (hexagram 11). Our physical bodies face constant threat from many sources, they always have done, we're animals, finite beings.

So whilst Covid is something to take all due precautions against it's just another threat to us and we live with those, as we always have done, without living in fear all day and night.
 

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Thank You for your kind reply. I think I've been inspired by others here along the way whom I've seen expressing things, mostly of cause about the I Ching, in their own way. I call that creative when we cross the borders and risk making fools out of ourselves in an attempt to open up somehow our points of view in other ways than generally expected. And in this, I'm only a follower, following those here who had done and still do that. It's never too late to learn.
I'll not take more of your time.
 

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