It all Started with the First Horror Movie.

There were a lot of things I needed to gather courage for but there was one main thing I had to gather courage for. I had to grow courage against the darkness alone. It all started after watching my first horror movie when I was six. Ever since then I thought ghosts would pop out everywhere in the dark if you are alone. I would not go to bed unless someone else was in the room. I would quit a hide and seek game at home. When my parents went out, and only me and my sister were at home, I would squeeze her arm tightly until my knuckles were white with my heart racing. When I would wake up at night, because of my quench of thirst, I would run to my parents bedroom and shake my dad awake, thinking him to be the strongest in the family to come with me for a drink. I have over come all of this being an eleven year old now. But only by giving it one try and then trying over and over again. Realizing it wasn't bad at all. And ghosts were just a superstition (well that was what I was taught). Like Mafatu, I have learnt to stand up against my fear.