As I was driving about the last few days with cello in tow, I heard an ad on the radio for a haunted house. The ad was going off about "what do you fear?" They listed the usual answers of death, dismemberment, torture, cannibalism, being alone, and the dark. I realized that, yes, these things are scary, but are more abstract fears than I typically encounter. I usually don't wake up each morning afraid of what the sadistic cannibals in my life are going to do to me.
When I noticed this, I then asked myself what it was, exactly, that scared me. And my answer was, "Living a life of compromised ideals." That is actually scary to me and is not something that a haunted house can really pull off effectively. I mean, are they going to have an enhanced picture of me at 50 looking sad that my life has been wasted? Probably not. That would be some high-tech haunted house features right there.
So that answers my question about why you don't typically see 30-somethings wandering around haunted houses: 30-somethings live in their own haunted houses and are trying to escape. Radio epiphanies are super annoying and I try to limit them to once a year now...
An Erinku:
yellow trees
of autumn
screaming color
in the face of gray.
