From “The Human Condition: A
User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
6 February
If you and I have but eyes to
see we will realize all of the following:
We are, all of us, plagued by
personal demons at 3 AM [of course, your demons and mine are distinctive, but
then so are our retina scans]. Those personal demons need confronting, head-on.
I think the process of confrontation should include the need to invite them in
for a cup of coffee. After all, they’re not nearly as terrifying as you and I give
them credit for. [No thing we fear ever is.]
Since demons are used to
activating fear in their victims, they’ll be blindsided by the respect implied
in that offer of a cup of coffee. Blindsided, and dissolved just like the
Wicked Witch of the West encountering a simple bucket of water.
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