{"id":3052,"date":"2010-07-01T18:52:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T23:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2010-09-20T11:08:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:08:12","slug":"love-or-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/love-or-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Love or Fear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/outstanding-conversations-barb-breaks-it-down\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">someone<\/span><\/a> that I admire very much and she told me that you act either out of Love or Fear. \u00a0<strong>Love cannot exist in fear and fear cannot exist in love.<\/strong> Hearing it woke me up a little. \u00a0Actually alot! \u00a0I started questioning my actions of late. \u00a0Was I acting out of fear or love? \u00a0To avoid the fear that I might be acting out of fear, my mind set to the task of proving her theory wrong. \u00a0Because if she was wrong, then the fault in her theory would allow me to be distracted from the real issue. \u00a0Luckily she was right, <strong>love and fear are not Yin and Yang, they are oil and water<\/strong>. \u00a0When you are acting out of love, there is no fear, when you act out of fear, there is no love. \u00a0They don&#8217;t like each other, not even a little bit. \u00a0Love is strong, fear is weak. \u00a0Love is the Hulk, fear is Dr. Banner. \u00a0Love is who you really are, fear is who you try to be. \u00a0Love is real, fear is fake. \u00a0Love is being a parent, fear is running from the responsibility. \u00a0For me, fear was working for somebody else, love is being a photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Be loving not scared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with someone that I admire very much and she told me that you act either out of Love or Fear. \u00a0Love cannot exist in fear and fear cannot exist in love. Hearing it woke me up a little. \u00a0Actually alot! \u00a0I started questioning my actions of late. \u00a0Was I acting out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,335,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-benji","category-random-thoughts","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}