Most guys are at fight club because of something they're too scared to fight. After a few fights, you're afraid a lot less.
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.
— Are you afraid?
— I must be.
— Good.
— Why is that good?
— It means you're not stupid.
The world's full of lonely people afraid to make the first move/
Everybody's afraid of something.
Act II, Scene 2
The fear of interacting with people…even I understand that one.
I’m pathetic. I was observing the world from a safe distance. I was just scared of being hurt. I was lonely. I also wanted to make friends, answer questions in class so that teachers would praise me, I was also in love, but... I was too afraid to connect myself with others and then get hurt. It was stupid to ignore this world.
And I suppose there's... the possibility I'm afraid of what another person might do to who we are and how we get from one day to the next.
Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?
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