Create Our Own Hell
Index 
Morality
"Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. Macbeth: Act I Scene 3 (aside, to himself) We tend to focus on a fearful future that "is not", more fearful than anything we have ever experienced, but, in our thoughts such a feared future is "possible". We then scheme to manipulate nature and others so as to avoid the imagined objects of our fears. Our fears are usually fear of loss of something. Macbeth here sensed the possible loss of his own life, or perhaps just the loss of his "is not" to be honor as future king. |