Fear Of The Dark.

The absence of light can create its own imaginings, it doesn't matter how many people are in the room since the eye cannot see.

Does the age of the person reduce the fear?

I sat next to this lady in her 50’s on my way home on the commuter train and we got to chatting on our day and the topic suddenly changed when the train came to a stop for no explained reason from the train engineer, she quickly looked for her cellular phone and called her husband and requested him to meet her at the destination stage where she would alight. Since we had broken the ice and were talking before the incident I asked her why she needed company yet the night was still young.

She explained to me that when she was a child she lived with her mother and her three siblings and at one particular night thugs broke into their house and demanded for money and since the mother did not have any, they put her in a sack and tied it up and since she was only eight years old there was nothing that she could do and managed to escape outside the house and two of the thugs saw her and chased her through the maize plantation  and since it was dark, they were not able to find her and she was lucky to find  a way to their neighbors house where they called the police. No one was hurt physically but that began her journey of the fear of the dark.

At the end of every day darkness must come in to mark the end of the day so how do you handle this?

As I watched her leave, I saw her wave to a man who waited patiently at the platform and then it occurred to me. He was not afraid of the dark but he had to live with it for the sake of his loved one.

So how do you handle your fear?