Fear is like chewing gum: You will find it at the most unusual places when you least expect it. And you are rarely happy when you touch it. It sticks onto you in your knee pits, on the tips of your eyebrows and directly under your skin. Sometimes it comes and goes so quickly and is so hot that you don’t know what’s happening. At other times, it crawls into your body slowly, so slowly that you don’t discover it before it’s too late. Or you will sit next to it silently and it will shove its arm into your chest while you are breathing. But… You can close your eyes even when it is dark. One thing is guaranteed about this essay on being scared: Children and adults alike will leave it braver than they entered it.