Fear - a personification
I’ll be laughing (quite heartily, mind you) when I see you. My laughter stills, the chill in the air settles on the nape of my neck. You smile.
You go on to explain that it’s been a while and that you’ve been wondering how I’ve been. You’ve missed me, it would seem. I nod politely, not wanting to show how truly afraid I was. But of course that was silly. You could always see through me.
It’d been a few days since that visit. It was a sunny Tuesday when I was courageous enough to show people my work. I would watch their faces every now and then, try to make out what they thought of it. You call that art? You whisper. I could feel your breath on the side of my ear. I feel a blush creep up my neck, making its way onto my cheeks. Then the others would look up with expressions of bewilderment, commenting on how much they liked it. Of course I thanked them but not until I stumbled across a few words, not sure if I really believed them.
An usual interaction between Fear and myself would often play out like that. It was on the rare occasions when I couldn’t take its snickering or petty comments any longer. I’ve heard that some people shout at it, scream until they no longer can. But I took a different approach. I told it a tale. One about its cousin, the one it couldn’t stand to be in the presence of. I told it about Hope. I continued to say that I much preferred it’s company to their own. This didn’t change anything at first. But when Hope started to join me on my daily activities, Fear couldn’t take it any longer. And so it left.
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