"The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene:
it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. 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 ti forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you."
"People move of the wear and tear of anxiety. because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up ion one year will be torn down in on day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that they might do alright but not their children. Because of the feeling that
nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else."
-Yann Martel, Life of Pi
