One day, on a gloomy night, a 5-year-old boy in his bed, covering hisface with a blanket with his trembling hands. Everything is dark, wherever helooks. At that time, he heard the door's lock opened slowly. On hearing it, hisheartbeat increased rapidly; he was sweat. Suddenly, The door opened and a handswitched on the light. The switched light said it was his Dad's hand. Then heentered the room and saw the boy was scared. He sat nearer to his bed and sawhim with silence. With a broken voice, the boy said "I am scared". His dadasked politely "Of what?". For that, the boy innocently, by seeing his dad's eyesaid "darkness scares me". His dad saw a lamp near to him for 3-5 seconds andhe remarked "Mmm...ok!... Do you know.....gods are hiding in darkness...?".After listened to it, the boy removed the blanket from his face and asked withshock "what!?...". his dad replied, "yes...! Do you want to hear thatstory?". His son eagerly with excitement said " yes!... Yes!!...".his dad evoked the story as "Once upon a time...where the darkness only existed.A team of good mind, found a great thing in the universe accidentally called LIGHT. they became known as Thecreators of light and we call them gods. The demons who possessed darkness saw their incredible discoveryand they planned to take The Light from them and they waited for the right time.As the expected time came, the demons tricked the gods by taking the power oflight from them as a whole and gave their darkness with the curse". Theboy frantically asked, " curse!...what curse?". His dad said, "thecurse was...the gods can't take their light back and also can't create analternative power for light". As he said, that boy's face filled withsadness. By noticing it, his dad raised his voice energetically as "eventhough they can't retrieve the light, they decided to help people by hiding indarkness" gently continued "But people like you without knowing thehidden truth, are afraid of darkness". "...But they still working in darknessto make the people awaken in the light". Then with a smiling face, his dadsaid "if you are afraid of darkness...". The boy concluded his dad's phaseas "....the god will be upset". His dad with a bright face said "yes!!...".With a cute smile, the boy said "the fear lost him!..". By listening to it, hisdad laughed and as he moved to switch off the light the boy questioned "how thegod really is?". Dad answered, "which they can't imagine". heswitched off the light and closed the door and he spoke to his mind " Yes! Ilied!... but I didn't say wrong. Only if there is darkness, the light has it'svalue. If not!..., the story must meet a change".
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The Gods are hiding in Darkness
FantasyHow Dad pulls his son from the fear of darkness by saying a fictional story about the relationship between the Gods and Darkness, and how he defends his fabrication is the story.
