Fear...

Your mind, the safest place in the world, but it is horrible to fear the place you once felt safe.

To see a part of you that you knew so well, to suddenly become afraid of it's shadow. To see familiar steps and be unable to climb them.

I never understood how people live in fear, people afraid to walk home alone, people afraid of unfamiliar packages in the mail box. Darkness, night, people afraid of people.

I always believed that fear belonged to other people, weaker people.

It'll never touch me. And then, it did, and when it touches you, you know that it's been there all along, waiting beneath the surface of everything you loved.

Your skin crawls, your heart sickens and you look at the person you once were and wonder... "will I ever be him again".