It’s October, which means that the number of horror movies watched this month skyrockets. Not by me, of course. I would never. I could never. I get scared far too easily. I joke that the evening news scares me, but half the time, that’s not entirely false.
Fear is the absolute worst emotion. Like, if you’re sad or mad, it’s not too hard to become not sad or not mad. There’s usually one direct fix. But fear? Fear has no direct fix. Fear lives in you and stays with you and ruins your sanity.
There are two levels of fear, I’d say. The first is those fears that you have no problem talking about. For example, I’m afraid of insects. Do you know how many times I’ve cried because I saw a spider or something? I hate insects and bugs, and I’ll always fear them. I’ll tell anyone and everyone that I’m afraid of this. But my fear of spiders doesn’t keep me up at night. That’s the work of second level fears.
I’ve had fears that keep me up at night. I’ve had fears that force my body to shake and my stomach to churn. I’ve had fears that creep up when I least expect them to. There are movies and TV shows that I’ll never watch again because something in them just creeped me out so much.
Anyway, I just don’t really get why people want to purposely scare themselves. Even if these horror movies y’all watch are more jump-scares than creepy scares, I still don’t get the attraction. But I did some Googling and apparently, it has to with our brains and the chemicals released in the fight or flight situations. I guess some people like their beating hearts and shaky breaths, even in safe environments, but I do not and will not. My brain just isn’t built for that.
And that’s fine. I can live a normal life never watching a horror movie. And I’ve learned to trust my body and not watch or read things that are creeping me out so to avoid more sleepless nights. It’s fine.
But if you’re one of those people who keep pressuring friends to watch scary things because “it’s not even scary at all” or “it’s not that scary” then you’re a jerk and should knock it off. I don’t care if Get Out is one of the highest rated movies or if Stranger Things is just sooooo good, I will not be watching it.
Fear is the worst emotion and I will be avoiding it at all costs, even if that cost is friendship.
Are you in the same boat or are you always first in line to the newest horror movie?
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Coolbeans4 
I can understand it up to a point. Life is sometimes terrible and cruel and there are monsters in the dark coming to get us. Fear is a useful emotion when you need an extra shot of adrenaline in your system as you flee for your life, and if there were no fear, there would be no bravery. However, I am personally very big on happy endings, and there aren’t too many of those to be found in a genre that majorly consists of tragedies.
That reminds me of a quote from the book Eragon: “without fear, there can be no courage.”
I’ve not seen many horror movies at all, only ever when they’ve been on while someone else wants to watch them and don’t at all appreciate them. Although some of the allegory in fictional horror is perhaps interesting enough but I’ve not read any horror yet either and have avoided even Stephen King’s books, though I did see one or two of his films on TV many years ago now. I don’t understand people who enjoy making other people feel fear either. Fear certainly is one of the worst emotions and on a foundation of fear we/society make mountains of many a molehill. Hope you’re all ok over there and that autumn/winter is being kind and nothing too out of the ordinary with your weather etc. Best wishes 🙂