The REAL Monsters

When we were young we were afraid of the dark. Mostly because there were monsters under the beds or in our closets or around the corner. But as adults monsters take on a different form; responsibilities, heart ache, jobs, selfdoubt, loneliness, and regret. Though you may be older and wiser you still find yourself afraid of the dark. 

As someone who loves being up all night and sleeping all morning long it still scares me to walk to my car at night. It's crazy how things can sneak up on you, how out of nowhere these monsters can get ya from behind and pin you to the ground. There are times when these monsters have you and no matter how hard you fight, how loud you scream, you still can't get away. 

Welcome to adulthood. 

Here we face these monsters head on, despite how far the other direction we want to run. Here we go into the fight swinging knowing that even if we put of a good fight we will still, more likely than not, lose. It's funny how as kids we grew up not looking in the closets for the monsters, or look under the beds, or even dangle out feet out from under the covers- I still don't. 

Growing up my parents always joked about monsters under my beds, so as a kid I would run and jump into bed or lunge out of bed. I still have a thing about not looking under the bed, even if I lost anything, "it's not under the bed MelFlo, and if it is, it's not worth looking for."  It's funny how some of these things stick around through out your life. 

Whatever those monsters may be, they're probably the same ones everyone else is scared of as well. Who'd a though that the Boogyman was actually financial responsibilities or loneliness? Haha it's probably because my parents didn't wanna give me real nightmares as a kid.  

Sleep, it's the easiest thing to do. You just close your eyes and drift away. Away from everything, all your troubles and heartaches. But for so many of us, sleep seems out of our grasp, something so simple yet so hard to have. We want it but just can't seem to get it. But once we face our demons, fears, and turn to someone for help...night time isn't so scary. Because in the dark, we aren't so alone.