When people's lives are fundamentally geared towards survival, when they are dominated by this motivation, which quickly becomes a fixed idea, they feel constantly threatened by the possibility of their goals being frustrated. Wanting to survive and wanting to overcome obstacles distresses and weakens them. Focussed on the future, on results, they are constantly off balance. They seem to be supported where they are or where they stand, but they are always looking to the future, where they will be able to fulfil their needs, desires, and ambitions.

It's a state of constant anxiety characterised by not knowing what's going to happen, and needing nothing to happen that threatens the plans. It's the classic win-win situation. Without alternatives, in the homogenization of perspectives, these individuals always expect redemption from their own actions; they expect salvation. This fixed idea, due to its persistence and continuity, generates discontinuities by creating holes, abysses, and craters that submerge them.

For those who live this way, being subjected to events is a threat. The greater the process of submission, the more constant the omission, and the greater the fear. The individual thus positioned ceases to exist as an agent and becomes seduced by the demands of circumstances, and is thrown from one side to the other, lulled and wrapped up by contingencies. He doesn't know where to go, although he always knows what to run away from. Paradoxically, he starts to be guided by what afflicts and holds him back, what pursues him, and which therefore also begins to define his trajectory. He can't even be compared to a boat adrift, because he is attached to what torments, immobilizes, as well as to what pulls him out of inertia. Fear - which is omission - leaves him agitated and at the same time paralyzed in the face of others, the world, and himself. This constant tension generated by the antagonism of co-optation (adjustment) and omission (fear) creates impossibilities.

Antagonism freezes, in other words, it's panic. Suddenly, there is only the fear of dying, of disappearing, of not getting what one wants, of not doing what is necessary. Disappearing by fainting, taking medication, or using drugs are the options that arise. Trying to cling on to something or someone, the individuals become parasites and think that someone or something else has to help and support them. The search for illusory solutions, the so-called flights into infinity (adhering to religious or political beliefs, for example), are supposed ways out, and attempts to survive.

This is how adepts, fanatics, and messianic masters and leaders emerge. Attempts to save the world, creating a new order in order to survive, usually stem from feeling alienated and threatened by the existing one. In essence, these are people who seek to isolate and protect themselves with supposedly defensive shells. Establishing protective and impermeable capsules is a way of circumventing the panic generated by living with others who are perceived as discrepant. What is seen as different threatens; what is beyond oneself is always perceived as a trap. It is seen as an impasse. Selectivity based on economic and social discrimination as a means of survival exemplifies this attempt to live only with those who are identical to oneself, with one's peers.

Looking for security and guarantees always stems from the desperate search to overcome insecurity and instability, just as it also stems from reducing all the different experiences to an attempt to overcome barriers that can lead to supposed success and dreams of paradises. Life is reduced to that. Drugs, both licit and illicit, in these cases act as a support that allows and provides the minimum of security to survive, that is, to take the next step towards reconciliation and maintaining appeasement, relaxation, participation, and co-operation with what alienates, frightens, and destroys.

How can we change these configurations, this way of perceiving and acting? How can we transform this attitude, which generates countless debilitating symptoms that often make life and living together impossible? The only way to transform this situation is to stop at what threatens, stop at the fear, and then start to get out of it. You have to focus on the problem that afflicts you, your own problem. By perceiving and questioning the fear, dialogues emerge, encouraging observations are made, and new paths are set. These new designs, these new configurations establish present dimensions in which questions are asked and answers obtained - made possible by living in the present. It's being in the world with countless possibilities and perspectives, without fear (because there's no omission, you're experiencing the present) and without haste (because arriving results from walking).

Fear is omission, and being omitted leads a person to become complacent, to chase after rights and conveniences, avoiding questioning, confrontations of any kind, and avoiding participation altogether. These are attitudes learnt from childhood, at home or at school. From an early age in life, we are directed to act conveniently in order to achieve results, desired goals, or to follow a safe path towards success, however it is defined. Seeking protection and security at any cost keeps us prisoners of what frightens us. We only get out of this kind of situation when fear is faced, when, instead of avoiding situations, we participate. This experience of participating with others who question generates changes, dynamics, and transformations.