Life is filled with imaginary evils. A woman worries all her life that her children may be harmed. She suffers their imagined deaths a thousand times while they play ball, swing on swings and blow out birthday candles. A man fears that someone will harm him. He faces teh imaginary intruder every time his family takes a walk at night, he has some moments to himself or he attends a crowded festival of celebration. Better to worry and fear when the actual moment of suffering arises than to suffer an imagined misery all of one’s days while surrounded by joy.
Zack Eswine