Closed Meeting Topic

They say there are things we should be afraid of. It makes sense to drive carefully out of rational fear of accidents. It's funny, but I used to drive drunk all the time, and never gave a thought to the danger of it. At the very same time, I was ridden by fears just as was the author of "Fear Was the Dragon." I had all the nameless, formless kinds. And I had some pretty definite ones: what about the vanishing job, the defunct bank account? I realize now that I was afraid, simply, of life. Booze fended off life for awhile; unfortunately life wouldn't go away entirely, and the booze finally didn't work.