are you all so frightened?

"but in situations where we have made the gift of our love and veneration, not out of long familiarity but out of our most personal impulses; where we have been disciples and friends from the depth of our heart--in such cases it's a bitter and frighteneing moment when we suddenly seem to realize that the principal current within us is determined to carry us away from the person we love. then every thought that rejects our friend and teacher turns its poisoned barb against our own bosom; then each defensive blow we strike hits our own face. then anyone who imagined he was harboring a valid morality in his heart, feels the words 'disloyalty' and 'ingratitude' looming up like catcalls and stigmas; then one's frightened heart flees fearfully back to the cherished valleys of childhood virtues, and can't believe that this break, too, must be made, that this bond, too, must be severed." /hermann hesse

animal collective - also frightened