How to React to Fear? Two Balls of Yarn May Suffice
The Cyclical Nature of Emotions
How to React to Fear? Image by Author.
Like all people, I’ve grappled with fear during my life — from mundane worries about work to the deeper terrors.
Please indulge me for two minutes of your imagination and attention:
Imagine two balls of yarn, one black and one white, tied together and tumbling down an endless spiralling staircase. The black ball represents fear, knotted and tangled, weighing heavy with darkness. The white sphere symbolizes its counterpart — faith, lightness, and openness. Bound together, they have no choice but to take each turn in tandem.
As they bounce lower, the shadowy globe of fear grows larger and larger, puffed up by nerve-wracking thoughts of everything that might go wrong. Meanwhile, the luminous orb of faith seems to shrink under fear’s swelling pressure. But just when dread becomes so swollen it seems it will burst, the two spheres reach a turning point.
Caught in the knot binding them, the white light ball acts as a fulcrum, levering against the darkness.