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Are you alone?

Are you sure?

Alone, I use to think I understood the meaning of that word.  That was a long time ago.  Years ago.  Alone for me now does not have the same meaning. 

What if I told you that there is a good possibility that you are never alone?

Are you looking over your shoulder right now?  If not, maybe you should be.

Did you ever have that feeling when you are taking a shower that there is someone hiding, waiting, breathing just on the other side of the shower curtain?  You see the curtain begin to move slowly in and out.  Where you alone then?  Or was that just a little lie that you told yourself to make yourself feel better.  To make it easier to cope with whatever was lurking on that other side of that curtain. 

Have you ever sat in your living room at night in your favorite chair maybe reading your favorite book, maybe like you are doing right now, and you feel like someone is watching you?  Or maybe breathing down the back of your neck?  Sometimes you might think you see something moving out of the corner of your eye?  Did you tell yourself it was your imagination?  A rationalization that most likely kept you from running, screaming out the front door?

Have you ever been in your bed a night, lights out, just about to fall asleep when you hear a shuffle on the carpet at the end of your bed?  Maybe you have sat up with the understanding, for one split instant that the darkness moves.  Did you sit there frozen for that split second in fear?  Afraid to move.  How many times have you told yourself that it was your eyes playing tricks on you?  A trick of light or a moving car casting a shadow that drove by quickly down the street.? But, then you remember that you did not hear the sound of a car. 

I have told myself many things in all of the instances described above.  Deceiving myself like you that I was truly alone.  Yes, I was once like you.  I use to let my mind explain many things that should not have been explained away.  But now I know the truth.  And now you do to. 

You are not alone.  At any given time, at any given place, there could be something lurking just to the right or left out of the corner of your eye.  Open your eyes and you can see them.  Open your eyes and watch the darkness move before you.  Leave the rationalization behind you, for just a little while.

Yes, I was once like you.  Lying to myself.  Fooling myself.  Convincing myself that I could be truly alone whenever I wanted to be.  Now I know the truth.  Security is a state of mind and this story, my story, is getting ready to pull that blanket right out from under you. This is a true story.  I know, because it happened to me.

Are you alone?  Are you sure?  Maybe you should turn on a few more lights.

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