MOMENTARY DISCOMFORT SEEN CAUSED BY FEARS
There is an old adage: “A brave person dies only once, but a coward dies a thousand times.” Most of the time our fears cause us momentary discomfort, but no-long term distress. But, sooner or later, when fear is mingled with self- preservation at the point of a crisis, and we panic instead of act, in a fleeting moment, we lay the basis for a life-time guilt. When we do not pass our own test for courage, or measure up to the minimum standard for what is right, we unchain a ghost that prowls the cellars of our nights and our days for life. In his sensitive novel, The Fall, the French philosopher and writer, Albert Camus, paints a frightening word-picture of a man haunted by a fleeting act of cowardice in his past. Time and geography bring no relief. This is the story, recalled by him one rainy evening in a shady Amsterdam bar, where he sought…
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