Day 10-Something you're afraid of

As you can tell, I am quite behind on my challenge. This week has been extremely busy so I decided to use my four hours with nothing to day at work today to catch up.

I suppose I am risking sounding like I am three when I say that I am afraid of the dark. I sleep in the dark just fine when I'm not by myself but if I'm alone, I have to have some form of light on. The first thing I do when I wake up or walk into a room is turn on a light. The past three weeks, I have been leaving for the hospital at 4:15 am and before I would go outside I would hold my car clicker up to the door and turn my lights on even before I went outside. I always have this fear that something is lurking in the shadows waiting to attack me at any moment. I slept with a light on in my room for years (way longer than one probably should) but the fear was made worse when I was either a junior or senior in high school. One night, a friend and I were walking to her car one night, it was pretty dark, when out of nowhere, a huge black dog started chasing us. It was a scene straight out of Harry Potter. Luckily, we jumped in the car just in time but I still am afraid something is going to jump out and attack me, especially, when I'm walking to my car at night. So beware, shadow lurkers, I carry pepper spray and I'm not afraid to use it if you jump me in the dark. (That also serves as a warning to those of you who might think it would be funny to hide in a dark corner and jump out to scare me.)