Antelope Know something We Have Forgotten
By Bruce Wade
On the Serengeti, an antelope grazes peacefully in the morning sun. Ears tilted. Alert. Content.
Then a lion appears.
In a fraction of a second, the antelope is running. Every muscle engaged. Every system focused on a single outcome: survive. The lion gives chase. The buck jumps, weaves, accelerates. The lion falls behind. The antelope escapes.
Minutes later, the antelope is grazing again. Heart rate back to normal. Life continues as if nothing happened.
This is called homeostasis. The body encounters a threat, responds fully, and returns to baseline. No lingering. No storytelling. No therapy.
We used to do this. We are built for it. The body still has all the hardware.
Then something went wrong.
A red car cuts across our lane on the highway. We swear, we hoot, we shake. We call three people to tell the story. We post about it. We carry a quiet hostility toward red cars for months. The threat lasted two seconds. The response lasted two years.
We have learned to adopt fear as a lifestyle instead of using it as a signal. And the difference between those two things is the difference between a life lived in reaction and a life lived by design.
Fear is a trigger emotion. It is designed to produce a response. When the response comes, the fear should go. The antelope did not forget this.
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