/lit/ - Literature

>>21825353
I'm sorry, Anon. But that is the way things are.

You are simply one of those people who lack the ability to repress your knowledge of death. Do not make the mistake of thinking that you can somehow put yourself under a calming spell, you can't, and the sooner you accept that, the sooner your anxiety will lessen.

This is, of course, a scary subject, I'm scared too. But so what? Running yourself ragged won't do you any good. Learn to sit with your feelings, put a movie on, it doesn't matter what, and just sit through the whole thing. I wouldn't recommend reading in your condition. I don't know how old you are, but for most neurotic types, the fear will decrease with age, nothing will make it go away entirely, but over time you will become more accustomed to this, at present, wholly unpleasant thought pattern.

Don't actively seek out media that exacerbates your fear, but don't recoil from it either.

>>21388600
What amazes me about WN is how nihilistic it is. I'd always imagined 1980's USA as a comfy, confident age, completely devoid of such neuroticism.

To know that this was lurking beneath the surface shook me terribly!