3:43PM // 3:53PM

They say it’s worse when it’s late at night because darkness is your only comfort, and hiding under your blanket doesn’t give the same sense of safety anymore because monsters don’t live inside closets. You grew up and you learned monsters live inside you. Others say it’s worse when it’s early in the morning when the light between the shutters of your windows provides a false feeling of warmth and when the silence of the daybreak is your only comfort. 

I think it’s worse when it’s in the middle of the afternoon, a time between evening gloom and morning glare. You can be in the middle of something - eating, watching, reading - when you suddenly feel a faint pang, and there’s no darkness to hide it and the noise around you can’t drown that feeling.