I was thinking about my 6 year old son. He gets scared when the light in the room is off, he's scared of darkness.

We all fear the dark because of what darkness represents. I decided I would sleep with the curtains open in order to see what happens outside my house when I sleep.

I woke-up at about 2.00 am, looked out the window and felt a strange feeling. I thought about the "what if" someone was standing outside, in front of my window with a torch, I then thought, when we close our doors and curtains we're getting into a box where we feel secure, however, wouldn't we rather see who's wondering outside our rooms instead of waiting for the person to enter into our rooms? See, when it's daytime we're confident and fearless but our surroundings don't change whether it's day or night.

I know that the less I know about things, the more I fear and the more I know about things, the less I fear.

Let me give you an example:

For many years I felt I couldn't raise my children on my own, this fear allowed me to tolerate abuse from "the partner", however, I decided it was time to confront this fear and began the new journey.

I have managed to overcome the things I fear the most by confronting the matter and I found that the fear was stopping me because of the great ignorance I had on the matter.