No gain in being feared

The image was captured by me.

I didn't need to think too much before choosing between being loved and feared by people.
There has to be a level of fear between us and people it should never exceed the love we have for one another.

Love is beautiful and sweet and its impact is limitless as long as we let it flourish but when it is been overshadowed by fear, it because of something else.

Throughout my existence, I have spent a lot of time expressing my love to people in different forms. I have made people happy and made sacrifices for the well-being of others, I have done unspeakable things to the detriment of myself just because I place so much importance on love and it would be impossible for someone who has done all of these things to choose being feared.
My soul feeds on love and it is one of the things we are meant to do in the world.

A lot of people want to be feared because they don't want to be disrespected by others or treated in an ill manner and they are only mistaken because being loved can even make you earn more respect and better treatment from people.

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When I was in secondary school, we had one teacher who doesn't forgive students. He is so mean and he beats so much because he believes that's what would make students fear him.

He got what he wanted, we were scared of him but no one loved him. I remembered at the end of the term or during teacher's days, we give other teachers gifts and he barely gets anything.

The relationship he had with many students was terrible and as time passed we started losing the fear we had for him.
"He can't do more than beat me, he definitely won't kill me", these became the words you will hear from students who want to be flogged by the man.

The fear vanished but we still had lots of fear for teachers who forgive us and even beat us seldomly because they do it with love.

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Love attracts beautiful things and that means being loved by people will definitely attract good things to me as well. Surviving among people who love me is a lot easier than among the people who fear, and fear will only push lovely people away from you. It would only destroy your relationship with people and that will make you miss out on a lot of with the people around you.

Being feared makes me miss out on lots of things and I don't see any benefit in it. Let's imagine a scenario where I notice a life-threatening incident happening to someone I fear a lot, the chances of telling that person are low and that incident might end up happening but in a situation where the person is loved, I can easily walk up to the person and tell him or her to be careful.

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If asked over and over again, I will prefer to be loved than to be feared. I am not the kind who easily blends in with people, a lot of people have misjudged my quietness as being wicked. It's a common belief in my part of the world but when they get close to me, they realize I am not what they think I am.

On several occasions, I have reached out to people who I think are scared of me for some reasons they built in their heads. I try to make them understand how free I am and they can always come to me when they need anything that I am capable of doing for them.