Oh to be scared.......

I want to be scared

 I’m fascinated by the ability to scare, to be scared. Sometimes my expectations are dashed by whatever it is I’ve seen or heard or read, if it has failed to achieve the desired effects. I fear that perhaps I raise the bar too high. There was another world, where being scared came easier, when the world wasn’t quite so black and white, where things seemed more opaque.

 No God, no afterlife, no consequences

 We believe in nothing, we fear nothing. We have nothing to fear from the dead for we know they can’t come back now. There’s no God so why worry about consequences? There’s no price to pay in the hereafter for we know there isn’t one. There is just the now, just here in the present, with the past firmly behind us and the future straight ahead.

 Are we starring in our own horror?

 Perhaps that’s the best horror film of all, the world we’ve created for ourselves, and we’re acting in our own technicolour screamfest, each one of us playing a starring role. And like the characters in those old horror flicks, we’ve no idea we’re being watched. We don’t know what’s lurking behind us or ahead of us until we hear ourselves scream.

 Life in the 21^st century – horror at its best

 

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”   Sigmund Freud