"There's so much fear"

I'm double-blogging tonight because why not.

As anyone who's reading this blog knows, I really love the movie Frozen. It has a lot of great messages in it and the soundtrack is freaking awesome.

One song in particular has a line that I've been thinking a lot about lately. It's the scene where Anna returns to find Elsa, and a song between them ensues where Anna tries to get Elsa to return to Arendelle. When Anna tells Elsa that the kingdom is buried in snow as a result of Elsa's leaving, Elsa proceeds to go into a sort of "snow rage" as Anna continues to try and convince her sister to return:

"I'm such a fool, I can't be free!
No escape from the storm inside of me...
I can't control the curse!
Anna, please, you'll only make it worse!
There's so much fear!
You're not safe here..."

And then Elsa breaks down and accidentally attacks her sister with her cryogenic ice powers.

"There's so much fear."

That line keeps coming back to me. Elsa, who has the stress of a frozen kingdom added to her, proceeds to unintentionally put ice in her sister's heart.

Fear.

So much fear.

Elsa's fear of what people will think of her and the fear of having to deal with a frozen Arendelle ended up nearly killing her sister.

There's so much fear.

Fear does crazy things to us. It makes us think irrationally and sometimes hurt people that we would never want to hurt, just like Elsa accidentally hurts Anna.

That's my philosophical thought for the night...