there, poised and ready to wreak havoc,
but we can choose whether we’re going
to engage with it or turn on the lights,
drown it out and crawl past it. I also
realized that drowning it out is actually
pretty easy, we’ve just been conditioned
to believe otherwise.
We’ve made being in fear a habit.
We’re pumped full of it as children,
like sugar, then as we grow we continue
to take in the bad news on TV and the
horror in the papers and the violence in
books and films and video games and all
this junk that fills us to the brim with
fear about our world. We’re taught to