While I was a kid, I was always scared of the dark just like other kids. Only few of us could step out in the dark. We hated it! It made us shiver, and cry. Since then til now, some questions still ponder in my heart about The Creature In Us.
Those days my granny would say, when it's dark I should never look at my shadow because it makes one scared. Each time I defy her words in the dark, and I take a glimpse at my shadow thanks to some light rays generated by the street lights. I do freak out, and I run for my dear life (chuckles).
I think it's either psychological or its a phenomenom that kids are scared of dark, and probably their shadows.
Our shadows are a reflection of our true self, it's crazy being scared of your own image either in an inverted form or in a weird manner (mostly upright).
The only time we get to appreciate The Creature In Us is whenever we're depressed or lonely, then our shadow appears and that period we get to communicate with it, and further appreciate it's existence.
Why do you think people look at the mirror?
Some take long stare at a mirror like our savior is there, or a wise-one would appear before us and solve all our problems but no the only thing that appears before us is The Creature In Us , our inner-form (our shadow). What appears in the mirror is still us, and a these gets me pondering more about our shadows. How could they be of help to us, why have they been created, why do kids get scared of them, and a lot of why's....
I'd appreciate if you could kindly contribute to this article, so as to make me understand what you think about the existence of our shadows.
Thank you
@the_primer
