Journal #23 Scary

The idea of scary is all around us. People are always thinking of how to scare others. Whether its just hiding around a corner and popping out, the director of the new thriller, or the author of a new scary story. The ideas of things that can make the human mind go crazy with fear are going through a lot of peoples heads on a daily bases. That to me is scary in itself. I remember when I first began to be exposed to scary things. The first real scary movie I ever watched was the Ring. I remember hiding behind furniture and holding onto my brother and dad as if I were drowning and the were my life vest. I have never been so terrified of a movie in my entire life then I was that night. I hadn't realized it then but the movie itself was really not that scary in comparison to movies I have seen since. I have seen the Ring many times since that first time and I have never been that scared as I was that night. Maybe it was because it was the first real scary movie i have ever been, or maybe it is just because the night itself was scary. Scary things are different for everyone and tend to change over-time. When I was younger I was scared of the dark, being alone, and things like that. Now I am scared of getting in a car crash, death, and losing a loved one in any way. Those are things that make me nervous and shake as the dark did when I was a child. As we age we realize that things like the monster under the bed, the goblin in the closet, and the boogyman aren't real and especially are nothing to be afraid of. We tend to live in a world of fear and fearless. Very few let themselves have a medium between the two because of a fear they can't get over or the idea that they are unstoppable. Neither are good but both are most common. Letting oneself be able to get over a fear while still keeping slight cation will allow one to live life much easier.