It struck me tonight that if you woke up in the early hours
when the bedroom was still fully dark and you felt a chill breath of air on
your ear accompanied by the whispered words ‘you are not alone,’ you’d be
forced to assess what it meant.
If you were a positive, optimistic sort of person, you might well perceive it as a message from some friendly entity like a guardian angel letting you know that you have help in your difficult endeavours. If, on the other hand, you were a neurotic sort of person given to dark imaginings and pessimistic expectations, you’d take a rather different view. You would assume that you were being haunted by something scary and malevolent and feel desperate to get hold of an exorcist. But if you were an ultra-realist completely convinced that there really are no more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, you’d go back to sleep.
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