Oh kind and ignorant child how fortunate you truly are to have not lived long enough to see the cruelty of man and his gifts for inflicting fear. We oft imagine we know, or that we can comprehend the full scope of fear an emotion, or maybe a sensation, unlike any other. I have lived longer than you and have felt fear in many different forms. Have you young one ever felt a fear for your life, for what you love, or for what you believe in. I feel there is no emotion that has so many names as fear that has such a grasp over everything we are. We become anxious, we feel nervous, or terrified, but why do we give a sensation that we dislike so much such power. It's funny, when you think about it fear has degrees in the English language and in many others. In other languages love has varying degrees and love isn't a catch all term for how we feel. Maybe I'm the only one that finds it odd love is so simple only one word used to define it in it's use but fear has so many different words to be used for it. But maybe it's true what they say "there's nothing to fear but fear itself." If only I could willingly say "there's nothing to misunderstand in love and the word is simple to understand."

