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MISFIRE

[roseblooms]

afraid of something you can't see?

[evidentiary]

That depends entirely on the "something" which I cannot see, and whether or not I can otherwise perceive it.

[roseblooms]

...Oh. I'm sorry, this wasn't — um. Retrospec is up to its tricks again, I see.

(It could be perceived, for what it's worth. Felt. Not seen, but felt.)

[evidentiary]

Would you like me to answer the half question regardless?

[roseblooms]

...If you're so inclined. Yes, I think I'd like that, actually, right about now.

[evidentiary]

I think that it is important to be afraid sometimes. Isn't it proof that you're thinking about things?

[roseblooms]

Meaning it's better to accept the reality of fear than to live in ignorance, correct?

[evidentiary]

Yes. I believe that without feeling and acknowledging that sort of thing, you can't move forward properly.

That said, I also don't believe that means you have to be open with others about your fears if you don't wish to be. Is that a contradiction, do you think?

[roseblooms]

I don't think so. In a way, I suppose fear is similar to pain. People treat it as a weakness, when really it's just a physiological response with a very specific purpose — to provide information about dangerous conditions so that you can better adapt to surviving them.

[evidentiary]

That's exactly it. So...in answer to "are you afraid of something you can't see", I would say "sometimes". Certain things do scare me, but of course there are others that don't.

However, I don't see those fears as a weakness, either.

[roseblooms]

I think that's a fair way of looking at it, really.

...The original question wasn't "are you". It was "didn't you say you refused to be". Which...changes the context, somewhat, but I thought it couldn't hurt to hear a second opinion on the notion first.

[evidentiary]

It does. I suppose my opinion is mostly the same even with the context...though I would add that I think rather than refusing to be afraid, the more important thing is refusing to only be afraid.

Feel the fear or whatever else is there, and then proceed.

[roseblooms]

I'm not sure if there was anything else besides the fear, in the original context. Now that you say that, however, I hope there was.

It would mean things weren't quite so bleak as they seemed.

[evidentiary]

I know someone who always prefers to look at things that way, so...

In deference to that mindset, I'd choose to believe in that, or try to.

[roseblooms]

Does that mean it's a mindset you don't often subscribe to yourself, without a conscious decision to?

[evidentiary]

Correct. I wouldn't say I'm gloomy, but my natural mindset tends to be more realistic than otherwise.

[roseblooms]

I don't think there's anything wrong with that, fundamentally. The world needs people who subscribe to reason just as much as it needs people who defy it.

[evidentiary]

And which category would you place yourself in?

[roseblooms]

I'm a physics student. I absolutely subscribe to reason, while still acknowledging that there are mysteries out there that we've yet to explain.

[evidentiary]

Medical, for myself. I assume that people with those mindsets are drawn to those sorts of things, however.

[roseblooms]

I think so. I'd imagine that a medical field, even moreso than the common hard sciences, necessitates a certain ability to see what is, as opposed to what one would hope to be.

One rarely visits an emergency room looking for optimism, for example.

[evidentiary]

Nor cynicism, for that matter.

[roseblooms]

Neither of the two extremes. Just realism?

[evidentiary]

It is certainly what I would prefer people with my life in their hands to use.