The people who took the Chapman survey seemed to be afraid of everything that was currently happening. They were afraid to die right now and yet also afraid to be alive.

Yet a day comes when a man notices or says that he is thirty. Thus he asserts his youth. But simultaneously he situates himself in relation to time. He takes his place in it. He admits that he stands at a certain point on a curve that he acknowledges having to travel to its end. He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes h