Panic Attack

What do you do when people around you are panicking because of real and imagined dangers? Do you join in their hysterical chorus or do you stay by the sidelines and take in the whole thing like an ordinary spectator, with manufactured Zen-like detachment?

Either way, you won’t be facing reality as you should. You’ll just be like I and countless others, ordinary human beings who unreasonably exaggerates or underplays each situation based on the emotions that reality chooses to trigger.

We never act wisely although we always mean to. It is a desire that is never sufficient to pull us through, at least most of the time. We act, and then we think, almost never the other way around. Though we’d like to think that we always think before we act, the truth is we seldom do enough thinking.

We have unconsciously accepted that we are forever pressed for time and therefore must act at once.

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