What scares you? What is it that makes your heart race and your nerves go on edge as you fill with paranoia?

I have never been easily shaken up but as a young kid I would’ve had a list of things from creepy clowns to talking dolls to answer that question. Once I was older, I grew out of those fears and what made me afraid turned into things like hearing my mother call my full name in the other room or remembering I had a test the class period before I had to take it.

The only thing I can consider being close to having fear now, is more like a worry and that is the loss or unhappiness of the people I love. Of course I can still be startled by a “pop-up scare” in a horror movie or dropping my phone on the sidewalk, but it still isn’t easy to get me to jump. I credit most of my stoic demeanor to a strong faith in God, but the remaining part has to do with personality. To me, if something can’t be solved with a prayer, it can be by taking action. I never understood why the victims in scary movies never fought the monsters back. If a creepy clown lured me into the woods and only one of us came back out… it wouldn’t be the clown.

I do love a good horror film and it being the season of spooks, I still find fun in Halloween activities like carving pumpkins and putting together cool costumes. Halloween is actually one of my favorite holidays because though I do not frighten easily, I am easily amused. I find scaring other people hilarious. At about the age of seven I mastered the art of hiding behind the corner and waiting to jump out at my mom. Eleven years later and that prank still doesn’t get old.

With all of that said, there is one thing that does give me the chills, this election is terrifying.