Karolina Latvytė-Bibiano. Me, My Fear and Other Stories
"I have always thought about death. Only the fear of it, as the realisation of fear, came much later, not when I was a child, clinging to the sheets, worried that my parents would die while I slept. But when my mother bought a book and gave it to my sister, who was studying psychology, Irvin D. Yalom's book "Staring at the Sun: …
"I have always thought about death. Only the fear of it, as the realisation of fear, came much later, not when I was a child, clinging to the sheets, worried that my parents would die while I slept. But when my mother bought a book and gave it to my sister, who was studying psychology, Irvin D. Yalom's book "Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death". Then I grabbed it and read it, and I didn't overcome the fear, I grew it. I grew it by realising that I had always been afraid of it and I identified with …