I treated myself to a shoe shine the other day and had a super conversation with the two women working there. The unresolved point I took away was: Does fear manifest a need for security? Or does a need for security manifest fear?
The conversation was initiated when I laughed reading about a new movie coming out called Snakes on a Plane (insert any joke you like here, that one is way to easy).
Anyway, what I said was someone probably greenlighted it as a favor or maybe to maintain some type of heroin addiction or maybe some vendetta (at least I really hope its something like that....). So, I pondered (aloud) whether once it got past that first executive whether others agreed because maybe they didn't want to get fired or even maybe they didn't want to look stupid (thus the fear angle).
The woman shining the other dude's shoes next to me thought that our need for security instills fear in us. I thought it was the other way around. Whatever the case is, I bet at some point someone in the history of the universe made a simple mistake and that drove the needs for people who already lived in tribes likely to assume that people from the other tribes were mean so we should protect against them.
Fear is illusory. A need for security feels like conditioning.
But here's the reality, I could see my reflection in my shoes after the shine. That's the meaning of life!
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