Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 7/3/05: It's not right to force fears on me.

Jacob Lawrence, "The Apartment" (1943) — Jacob Lawrence, *The Apartment* (1943)

July 3, 2005:

It's not right to force fears on me. Crippled by irrational terrors, she seeks to cripple loved ones by projecting those terrors outward into the world. Which, ironically, makes them in a sense real.

That's the struggle, I suppose. Real in what measure? In whose context? To what end?

I won't accept those terrors as real for my life. They don't belong in my life. That's the struggle.