A Parable: When Anger Meets Fear

 One dark night, not so long ago, a man who was not yet a man traveled alone in the darkness through the domain of strangers. He sought to achieve a mundane and commonplace goal, to acquire something that might satisfy his hunger for something to sweeten his existence. His name was Fear. As Fear traveled, he came upon a sight which both baffled and worried him. An older man who was traveling nearby seemed to have become interested in Fear, but Fear did not have the wisdom of years, or the counseling of Elders, which might have given Fear some insights as to the true nature of the encounter which would soon become the defining moment of his existence.
The older mans' name was Anger. He was on a mission, to assist in cleansing the land of evildoers who would wantonly victimize the inhabitants of his territory. Anger would do this by watching over those in his community who were either too weak or too afraid to stand up and confront the ever-present vandals and evil-doers who were perceived as being rampant in the community. Though Anger was not a soldier or a fighter by nature, he possessed a wondrous thundering weapon which gave him the emotional fortitude he had been denied by nature, and which he felt enabled him to overcome any threat to the safety of his community. As Anger observed Fear, he felt certain that calamity would befall the community within moments if he didn't act soon, and Anger called upon the "True Guardians" for assistance. Angers' call was answered, but the "True Guardians" were perceived by Anger as moving much too slowly in saving the people, and it was solely left up to Anger to protect those who lay in their homes defenseless against the threat that only he knew would soon be upon them all. Fear also called out for help, but had chosen not to call out to the Father who had given him life, and instead called out to a child like himself, with little of life's experiences to guide her in advising Fear in his hour of need.
Soon, Fear found himself pursued by Anger, and attempted to flee this open threat to his very existence. Anger was consumed by his overwhelming need to protect others, and threw caution to the wind as he rushed to confront Fear, once and for all.
Then, an unusual event occurred. As the two locked with one another in mortal combat, it was Fear who became the Lion, and it was Anger who soon felt that he would be a sacrificial lamb, overcome and consumed by the instinctive survival imperative that had transformed Fear into a wildly combative soul who would overcome Anger and emerge triumphant. At that moment, Anger brought forth his thundering weapon, and separated the shining light of the everlasting soul from Fears' physical body, ending a life that had hardly begun.
Anger traveled the land afterwards, in search of a place where he could regain focus, and attempt to redeem himself, for he had come to realize that he had taken the life of a human being for no other reason than the fact that he had pre-judged another without any basis in fact, and had taken the life of another person, not in the defense of the innocent, but in defending himself from the consequences of his own misperceptions of his fellow humans. The overwhelming burden came from the universal truth of something someone had told him long, long, ago: "What goes around, comes around". It was the waiting, that drove him mad.