Fear: an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm. “I cowered in fear as bullets whizzed past”.
Reality: 1. the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. “he refuses to face reality”.
- a thing that is actually experienced or seen, especially when this is unpleasant.
- a thing that exists in fact, having previously only existed in one’s mind.
- the quality of being lifelike.
2. the state or quality of having existence or substance.
Some of us are often accused of fearmongering, when we are in reality, coming from a realistic perspective. It’s only that those with whom we are communicating do not want to hear about that unpleasant thing(s) (see the word unpleasant in both definitions above), that we have either experienced, or seen before. Our logical conclusions are usually reached after meticulous research, and, the observation of patterns in people’s actions, or other events. We are often called conspiracy theorists, but as I recently discovered, such people are considered extremely intelligent due to their ability to recognize patterns. An excerpt from this article, succinctly explains this phenomenon:
Pattern recognition according to IQ test designers is a key determinant of a person’s potential to think logically, verbally, numerically, and spatially. Compared to all mental abilities, pattern recognition is said to have the highest correlation with the so-called general intelligence factor (Kurzweil, 2012).
I think we should start referring to ourselves as reality-mongerers – it is closer to the truth than that f-word.
Helen
