awordlessthought:

guess what? i haven’t slept at all so far tonight because of this horrible thing right here

Because it’s natural for people to be afraid to die. Every single organism on this planet has evolved to achieve one thing: survive. I can understand that you feel sick when you think of death. That’s your brain going “Hey! That’s not a good thing! Let’s try not to do that, please!” (which is also why suicide is so majorly awful and tragic, like, some people have been pushed so far that it’s easy for them to resist their own survival instinct.)

This fear is completely rational. Hell, I’ll even go so far as to say it’s probably the oldest, most important fear we all have. It’s the reason you’re alive right now. Imagine the consequences if your ancestors weren’t afraid of getting mauled by mammoths, or ambushed by wolves. You exist because of this.

DO NOT feel bad for having this fear. I promise, this is really okay, even normal.