Beautiful...and correct from beginning to end. something I've always found funny in the fight about every episode we see: sometimes, people miss the point. Go ask a seven year old (or several) and then you will find the spark, the hope...the fear defeated that makes companions of us all. It's not a bad impulse, but people just take it too far - especially if they are working from abstracts rather than real people and situations.
To me, that's what it means. We all know fear. We all have our own demons and darkness and shadows and skeletons haunting us. This is what unites us all. We all have these things, we all understand them...and we understand that bit in the middle that can be hard to see unless you are looking for it. Hope. THAT is what unites us. Look beyond the fear to what lies ahead “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” Oh wait, wrong story... ;) (Somehow that just sprung into my head. Couldn't help myself. SORRY.)
It is not a fallacy that there is safety in numbers...physically, within our minds (think that's why we create friends for ourselves...to have a hand to hold). To have someone stand with us, remind us, help us think and make us better - that is the point. So yes...fear brings us together. And united we can find that hope (and capture it and be BETTER PEOPLE TOGETHER) on the other side of the fear. "Do you get scared on ghost trains? I get a bit scared. So it OK if I hold your hand?" (The Doctor to Amy in 'Good Night')
I did find it funny (and yet, not at all surprising), that Clara was the monster under the bed and the nanny to soothe a frightened and confused and lonely child. Makes sense, really... She is Schrodinger's companion. Oh yes. :)
It's not a bad impulse, but people just take it too far - especially if they are working from abstracts rather than real people and situations.
To me, that's what it means. We all know fear. We all have our own demons and darkness and shadows and skeletons haunting us. This is what unites us all. We all have these things, we all understand them...and we understand that bit in the middle that can be hard to see unless you are looking for it. Hope. THAT is what unites us. Look beyond the fear to what lies ahead
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” Oh wait, wrong story... ;) (Somehow that just sprung into my head. Couldn't help myself. SORRY.)
It is not a fallacy that there is safety in numbers...physically, within our minds (think that's why we create friends for ourselves...to have a hand to hold). To have someone stand with us, remind us, help us think and make us better - that is the point. So yes...fear brings us together. And united we can find that hope (and capture it and be BETTER PEOPLE TOGETHER) on the other side of the fear.
"Do you get scared on ghost trains? I get a bit scared. So it OK if I hold your hand?" (The Doctor to Amy in 'Good Night')
I did find it funny (and yet, not at all surprising), that Clara was the monster under the bed and the nanny to soothe a frightened and confused and lonely child. Makes sense, really...
She is Schrodinger's companion. Oh yes. :)
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