Mostly, we fear sitting with people in their pain because it may take us to our own pain that we want to avoid, or we feel helpless.
Yesterday we both bogged in a black depression - the late nights, listening sporadically to Beethoven piano sonatas - ruining our mornings, the afternoon sun too bright and accusing for tired eyes, meals running off-schedule - and me with my old panic fear sitting firm on my back - who am I? What shall I do?
My biggest fear, sitting silently in the corner of the banquette, was that the twins would take their anger out on me.
He fears actually sitting in parliament because there is still a bounty on his head, and continues to live in hiding.
Fear of bullies, fear of angry teachers and principals, fear of being teased, fear of sitting alone at lunch, fear of playing alone at recess, fear of misunderstanding assignments and expectations and social cues, fear of the next person who says that he or she "should" be able to do something he or she simply, absolutely cannot.
Now, the appeal is moving beyond extreme sports enthusiasts, whose idea of fear is sitting in a cubicle, to the people who sit in cubicles watching GoPro videos.
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting.
In between the brief candlelit scenes there is a blackout so total that actors, unable to see anything as they whisk around into new positions, have reported feeling unnerved, in constant fear of sitting on each other.
Yorke has said that the album's lyrics are based on "that anonymous fear thing, sitting in traffic, thinking, 'I'm sure I'm supposed to be doing something else'... it's similar to OK Computer in a way.
