Board Thread:Newspaper/@comment-26510374-20170629003743/@comment-26510374-20170705191112

The problem is I find that tactic to be weak and ineffective. When I tell myself it's "just this" or "just that" it doesn't help. I know it isn't just something.

Take for example 4 AM. The Japanese word for four is sometimes "shi" also meaning death. Real things lurk in the night sometimes: intruders, animals, mind tricks. I mainly have Tetraphobia so I am superstitious about numbers, but there is also time to be afraid of.

Time can never be dismissed as just time. Time rules the universe. Time impacts everything.

I've learned to live alongside these fears though they hold me back, and they probably won't leave for a long time.