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So I just realized I'm still pretty scared of the dark. I went out to get the mail at about 10 PM, because no one had yet and I really like mail. (It's a surprise every day! Today we got some boring letters and an Anthropologie catalog. I love that store, but it's so expensive I've never bought anything there. My mom has, though.) Anyway, I got about four steps out of my front door and turned around, went back into my room, and grabbed my Olfa Touch-Knife out of my purse. (It's like a mini X-acto knife in the shape of a circle with a diameter of 1.5 inches and one side a little flattened. Fully extended, the blade is about 1/2 inch long and 1/4 inch wide. Tiny, but sooooooo useful.) Anyway, I held that in my hand the entire time while I walked to the mailbox (which is maybe 60-ish yards from the house), and on the way back I even extended the blade. When I was few steps away from the sidewalk up to my house, I heard yelling in a house across the neighborhood, and I started running back to the house. After getting inside I realized how absolutely ridiculous it was. But that's the thing about phobias- even thought the person with the phobia may realize that the fear is irrational, this realization does not actually lessen the fear.
After thinking about being afraid of the dark for a minute, I realized my very favorite tv character, Dr. Spencer Reid (the genius 24-year-old prodigy with "an IQ of 187, an eidetic memory, and can read 20,000 words per minute") is afraid of the dark too. His reason?
"Because of the inherent absence of light."
After thinking about being afraid of the dark for a minute, I realized my very favorite tv character, Dr. Spencer Reid (the genius 24-year-old prodigy with "an IQ of 187, an eidetic memory, and can read 20,000 words per minute") is afraid of the dark too. His reason?
"Because of the inherent absence of light."