Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines–generous, gum-yielding trees–to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay. Amy Gerstler
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C.S. Lewis wrote in "Mere Christianity" that the proper response to fear is simply to get up and do what you need to do, whether that's running away or facing it. The quote above is about the feelings of panic that sometimes come with imagining the worst possible outcome. It's like, "Oh no! I'm afraid of this or that! What if I am ever in this situation again? How am I going to survive?! I'll die! But of course it isn't real, so who cares?

Source: Medicine

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