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Becoming Human

The more I read, and think and reflect and live on this crazy planet full of wonderful, fragile, struggling fellow humans I am convinced that the only two driving principles behind what we do are love and fear. Perhaps because I am reflecting on these things, I see them.  Maybe they have been there all along.....actually, I am sure they have, but I was probably too busy judging and labeling what I saw on the surface to try to understand it. Anger, shame, pride, entitlement, jealousy---all born of fear, played out in front of me this past Thursday.  Within the span of one hour, I witnessed three displays of fear as anger.   First was a violent fist fight between two men outside a coffee shop.  One man walked in front of another man's car as he tried to exit the drive thru. This delayed him leaving and elicited honks from those who waited behind him. The driver eventually pulled over and exited the car, charging at the man  who had been walking who had felt safe enough