are you afraid of the dark?

i have discovered a fear of mine while doing research: the dark. you laugh, but you would be afraid of the dark too if you saw snakes like this at 5am.

juvenile boa constrictor


there are so many bad things that could happen to me in the dark dark forest. i could trip and break my leg (which i almost did-- proven by a contusion to the shin).. i could get eaten by a jaguar.. get mauled by vampire bats.. or be struck down by the branches that capuchins break. mousse hit me with an Anona purperea fruit (huge spiky fruit about the size of a pineapple) on friday.

mousse


A.pur.


anyways so the point is that my fear is legitimate. so before you start cackling relentlessly, bite your tongue and think about how much more legitimate my fear is than yours.