I’ve never understood why people like scary things.<\/p>\n
I hate to be scared. It’s probably due to the fact that I am rather high strung (as in I don’t need caffeine to be wound up and jumpy) and I have a vivid imagination.<\/p>\n
I never had a fear of the supernatural, excluding a (fully justifiable, I’m sure) hatred of zombies. So I’ve never been quite sure why vampires and werewolves and the like are fodder for horror films. I much prefer the stories that explore why they’re different from us. But I don’t necessarily find them scary.<\/p>\n
I think real fear is something else entirely.<\/p>\n
Such as last night when we heard a loud banging and crashing from my grandmother’s bedroom.<\/p>\n
That’s real fear.<\/p>\n
She’s okay. She’s just going to be bruised and sore for a week or so. But in that moment I envisioned many things–none good. All of them frightening.<\/p>\n
Like I said, I’ve never understood why people like scary things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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