The mind is fickle that way, if you want to believe in something, you just might induce hallucinations. The thing is to be able to distinguish what's real and what's not. Some of my friends have had pretty freaky hallucinations due to different medical conditions, but they told me that they learned pretty fast to know what war real and what was not. But it didn't make the hallucinations less scary. I know that the 'monsters' that frequented their minds weren't real, since I was sometimes around when they were hallucinating and I never saw anything.
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
