What Scares Us

My eight year old daughter asked me:

"Dad, what scares us? Why do we get scared when we suddenly see something like a shadow?"

I hoped she to understand what I was going to say.

"Well, i don't know. But, i think, something very similar to a human and yet not human is what scares us, sweetheart. At least, the idea of it what scares us the most." I said wisely.

She looked reflective for a second. And then she asked with this thrilling look on her face:

"Isn't that what see when we look at the mirror, daddy?"

She had understood well.