I've been throwing myself into a lot of TV series lately - Lost Girl, Supernatural, Doctor Who, Torchwood - and they all play on the fear of the unknown.
Think of the hellhounds in SPN, or the monster from the Midnight episode of Doctor Who, or Bo's fear of herself in Lost Girl. All of it focuses on that one human fear: the unknown.
We will never have any idea what goes on inside the head of another, even the people closest to us. Sometimes we can barely understand what is going on in our own head. Imagine being able to know; would it change how you treat someone?
I think that there is so much we can never know, so much we can never find out. Personally, I think there is some consolation in that. It isn't scary to not know something; it is comforting. It means there is still more to discover, still more darkness to destroy by shedding light on it. A dark destroyer, if you will.
Naturally, the series I have been watching are fictional, but apply that to the real world. You will never be able to guess everything that happens inside the mind of another, but that doesn't mean you need to do that.
In all honesty, it is 3am and I am exhausted. I have no idea if I even made sense, and the "dark destroyer" thing was an in-joke (hi J.) so I'm going to go sleep now.
See you next Tuesday!
E