Scalzi on “Fear”
This post is a quote from The Sagan Diary, by John Scalzi, 2006. Outstanding insight, IMO.
… [Fear] is what it is; the serpent in my ear, whispering the promise of the fall.
I am human. Fear lives in me and sets to make my heart bitter. But I know something about Fear. Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives. Fear lives in me and I cannot change that. But I choose to starve Fear. I choose to live here [and] now.
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