I want to believe

Last night I started watching the X-Files, season 2, on DVD. I always think I'm not going to be scared of monsters or aliens, but I am. I hate them because they can come into my house and kill me. Psycho's, too, I hate them, and I hate anything with a mask and a signature weapon eg. Leatherface. He has a mask AND a weapon. Masks on psychos are the worst. You can't pick them in the crowd during the day, but they can see you, and then they go home and get their knives and masks and then you end up in their freezer. I know it's completely irrational, because it's obviously completely unreasonable for some random nutjob to come into my house and cut me up, and that's fine, I know that, and sometimes I'm very grown up about it when I'm home alone and tell myself that it's ok. But every so often you see an episode of SVU or, in this case, the X-Files, and it's one of those "there's no motive, he is just pure evil" episodes where there is no motive and the killer is just pure evil. And then I get chucked right back to square one, terrified of crazed killers marauding the streets of the southeastern suburbs with a pickaxe looking for a new victim. Pickaxes are pretty scary, whenever I lie on my back facing away from my door I wonder if the killer will just rush at me and plunge the pickaxe into my back. That would be the worst. Actually, that might be ok because you wouldn't really know it was coming, unless you were like me and expected that kind of shit to happen 24x7. What's scarier is the psychological shit, the killers who fuck with you first. They lie under your bed and lick your hand and you think it's the dog but then you go to the bathroom and written on the mirror in your dogs blood is the sentence 'Humans can lick too'. Doesn't that TERRIFY you? Imagine lying down in bed, turning off the light, and seeing the words 'I'm under the bed' written in UV light on your ceiling. Yes, it's from a film, and probably not a very good one, but IT CAN NOW HAPPEN BECAUSE HOLLYWOOD HAS ALLOWED IT IN MY BRAIN. You will scream and scream but the killer has so many weapons and smarts that you will just be dead in a few minutes or even less and it will most definitely hurt you a lot. Killing and torturing makes me scared, rape not so much, but kidnapping for ritual sacrifice is also a very real fear despite being funny if they were wearing cloaks and devoted to Satan. Basically, killers who are reading this now know how to make me cry, if that's what they're into. Wear a mask, not a cloak, bring a knife, kill my dog and lick my hand. I'll positively lose my shit.

Skeptics beware, you too are at risk. I am in the privileged position of constantly being alert and aware of the signs and dangers, whereas those who just live their lives happily with no worries about being abducted and mutilated... well, I'm not going to say you deserve whatever happens to you, but you probably do deserve whatever happens to you. The truth is out there.

PS. The good, great, amazing thing about the X-Files is this. Hoo boy. I will obviously keep watching just for this and try to ignore the scaries.