MANIC

when a young rabbit comes across it’s mother in a snow-filled forest, dead, the young rabbit itself will die instantly of the equivalent of a heart attack, knowing, on some level, that it cannot survive the winter without the support of its mother. Many children, faced with as clear of a knowing that their parent(s) cannot help them survive, or worse, pose a threat to their already tenuous survival, would experience the same response. The human, on the other hand, has a way of defending itself from such a life threatening realization. It simply separates the feeling which might have killed it, had it been experienced at a young age, from the memory of the incident. The memory is then buried (supressed) until the human is more mature, physically and mentally, and is strong enough to bear the feelings which might have killed it when it was younger.

Shot by H. Alonzo