Fear of the Known.

There is a more substantial fear that I am often confronted with as i grow into adulthood and that is the fear of the known. This is the kind of fear that i am aware of that can cause me physical as well as emotional and psychological pain or harm. This is the kind of fear that results from human ill will those that harbor some form of anger or hatred towards you for one reason or another legitimate or otherwise. This fear is real and if left unchecked, investigated and fully comprehended can and will do you harm in a matter of time. This kind of fear is predictable to a greater extent and can be avoided if and when fully understood without having to be confronted. This kind of fear can occur at any given time of day and under just about any circumstances, especially when you least expect it. This is the kind of fear that is best left to itself and allowed a lee way for it to pass you by if and when it shows itself on your path; this is when you best practice your 'Bare Attention."
The fear that is generated against you by your fellow humans is the most potent of fears as it can be very deep and cruel often times depending upon how deep the source of ill will originates from. As a human being it is almost impossible for you to avoid having this kind of fear as you interact with the rest of society especially a society that has multi-culture and multi- religious groups alongside the one you grew up with. There will always be doubts and suspicions wherever you look or find yourself in, if not from others around you it may be form your own sense of fear through lack of confidence and low self esteem about who you are. In short the rest of humanity can turn out to be quite threatening to you or so it seems, and so you resort to the use of blinders most of the time or sunshades to avoid being looked at or to steal glances and not be noticed of others around you. This is the fear born out of not having a thorough understanding of your rights and privillages as a human being among your fellow man, it is the result of harboring ill will towards others often in the form of judgement and presumptuousness towards others even those who you have never met before. The fear for me is more towards how ignorant i sometimes become under situations which expose me toward being judged and perceived with negative intentions for no obvious reason.
Fear of what is tangible and perceptible or what can be expected is sometimes more frightening that not knowing what is in store for you as in fearing the unknown. Sometimes you have a good idea of what can happen if you do this or that or if such and such a thing happens to you for making the wrong move or decision and this kind of fear is always there at the back of your mind every time you are confronted with a situation you feel like you have had before, a deja vu. But in most cases you become more alert and more weary such that you try to avoid being trapped into experiencing what you envisioned could happen in the negative sense, however there times when you have no choice but to face it head on and when you do you will act with the full force of your conviction of who you are or face the consequences.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As atrocities upon atrocities is being unraveled from all over the war torn or civil strife countries, some true while others are otherwise creates a kind of known fear as something man is capable of inflicting upon each other under given circumstances. hence one has great fear that what is happening in Syria or Iraq or the Gaza Strip can happen where you are. fear of what your fellow man can do to you for their own self preservation is another form of fear that you harbor deep in your heart whether you are aware of it or not. And fear of what the one you love most, your wife, your children or your best of friends can do to you given the excuse or circumstances is even more frightening if not painful. Only man will act out of sheer maliciousness 

“He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.”

Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)