“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that's shocking.”
-Sarah Dessen
It is fear that brings rage, that hot burning anger that seeks to harm. It is a biological button better left alone. When we see something that frightens us, a primitive part of the brain is activated to produce aggression. So, Katerina, when she sees all the things around her that makes her scared… she's being deliberately triggered... as are others. That rage destroys us from the inside, corrupts our sense of community into one of competition and suspicion. So, from somewhere inside that rage we need the real us to take over, find a calm space in this crazy life an
