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‘'Dear reader,
You don’t know me but you’re about to. If you had a choice, you’d definitely run screaming, your hands over your ears to drown me out. This story isn’t your rainbow. It’s more like the nightmare from your childhood that you repress, the irrational fears coming to haunt you, taking you back to that sobbing child that you had tried so hard to forget.
I’d like to say sorry for what you’re about to learn but this is your choice. If you continue reading this, you’re brave and good luck.
Fears are a funny thing aren’t they?
What part of your mind makes you shiver when faced with a spider or makes you feel nauseous at the top of a tall building or leaves you in a cold sweat when you wake from a nightmare full of scenes that could never possibly happen?
Scientists and psychologists have examined the behaviour of fear for centuries, but could it ever really be explained? I guess it could, if you believe in the conventional science of the human mind.
But what if there was something else? Something deep and dark hidden in the very depths of our minds, something that each individual is born with. I suppose it doesn’t really matter does it? We all feel fear, it’s a part of being human.
My question to you is this, what happens when that fear goes away?
What does it mean when you no longer feel fear? Is that part of your brain switched off and permanently damaged?
It’s funny, you’d think when you’re faced with possible death, you’d be afraid right? You’d be afraid of the pain, of the thought of leaving those you love behind, of the thought of never seeing the world in all its mysterious beauty.
I didn’t feel that. I felt relief, like I’d finally been granted the wish that I had longed for for so long.
Oh reader, I hope you’re not the faint hearted type. If you are, I apologize and will give you a warning, this story won’t be for you. If you decide to keep reading out of pure curiosity, I thank you.
You don’t know me, but you’re about to....'