Fear is the greatest immobilizer in our lives. It's preventing us from making changes and it holds us back from really living. Fear jeopardizes good relationships and keeps us trapped in bad ones.Being afraid holds us hostage,locked  in; the smell of old convictions rotting away in the corner. The irrational fear of losing what we don't really own anyway stops us from making real choices, from realizing that we may need to turn a page.
There is no stronger emotion than fear, perhaps, apart from love, and both are devastatingly destructive.