Night in a wood cabin
One moment of pain or curiosity not addressed can grow branches and become a staple in our mind for much longer than the thought warrants. Simply because we’ve left the moment unexplored, unexamined, and without this unpacking, the moment will linger in the shadows of our lives, threatening to expose itself, however it can.
Our fear of this exposure causes us to bury those moments in darker shadows. Had she taken the plunge to explore and uncover the disturbance in the first moment of concern, the night might have been peaceful.
But that first unchecked disturbance became the seed of many imagined nightmares, all of which depended on Nia’s fear of being alone and in a dangerous space. Although she couldn’t be any safer, her fears were nurtured to be more pronounced than the truth of her reality.