Live and die by pretty lies...

I think it is time we say a word about fear, for it is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary ... how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention. It shows no mercy and does not discriminate. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of terror and panic because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.