Coffee Musings - 030407

Do the waves have fear or is fear a human convention? When we ascribe fear to dogs, horses or other animals, are we really misinterpreting their language? If fear is an element, a force, within all animals, then is it also available within those entities that we do not consider "animals" but have the ability to live? For instance, what makes a tree fearless? What within the ocean is fearless? Great White Sharks may have fear, or may not, and if not, why not? We base our interpretations of other entities reactions based on our own. When will we realize that maybe we are wrong, that a lobster does have feelings? The world would be morose if we felt the ocean had fear, imagine that . . . the ocean having fear. When you stand on the sand with your toes slowly hidden by the low tide wave, do you feel the fear . . . or is it possible that within certain refuges; the waves, the desert, some expanse of space, we are meant to visit, to pray/meditate, to release the fear? To become the species that we could be if only the word "fear" was never written?