What I say: THE EMOTION OF FEAR, AND THE INSTINCTIVE REVOLT OF THE HUMAN EGO AGAINST THE LIMITATIONS OF TIME, SPACE, AND NATURAL LAW, ARE SO DEEPLY EMBEDDED IN OUR PERSONALITIES THAT THEY HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED AND MUST ALWAYS EXIST AS MOTIVATING ELEMENTS IN ART AND LITERATURE
Interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Me: I used escapist fantasies as a coping mechanism to get through years of trauma and therefore never learned how to plan for a real life future
Alternatively: I went through periods of depression so frequent and intense that I never considered that I’d actually make it to my 20s so now I’m kinda just making it up as I go
