I wrote about the film series titled “Sinister” The first thing I think about when I think about the demon in the movie is its omniscient presence, always vanishing and reappearing when the victim is at their weakest. Cohen mentions how monsters always vanish and reappear, never dying, resurfacing at what seems like a random time. This immediately reminded me of something in not only my life, but assumingly the lives of a majority of people. Stress is a natural and essential part of life, but that is not the monstrous aspect of it. In today’s day and age, the pressure to exceed in school or at a job has never been higher. Using myself an example, the amount of stress I experience during the school yearly would probably cause an aneurism in one dosage, but the grind consists of hours, days and weeks. Tests and papers every other week, along with other commitments make for a stressful experience. There are times when no matter how hard you work or how efficiently you plan, you still feel as though you cannot come out on top and truly succeed, only scrape past. This concept of an over bearing presence that you know will return shortly after you battle it resonates with what Cohen was saying about how monsters never die, they only vanish and reappear. The stress and anxiety I feel is caused by cultural norms and will most likely never die, it will only appear, possibly in different forms. The monster in Sinister is never truly defeated, a characteristic of mentioned in Cohens article that directly ties into a feeling that affects me daily.