In A Moonshine Night

in The Ink Welllast year

A boy named Safi had anxiety about darkness and had fear of ghosts (though he had not ever met anything like this) while he was a child. Yes, there might be a question drifting in your mind like, how did he meet with those kinds of fears? Was It normally coming into his mind or was there something other case hidden? Well, he was quite a fickle kid in his earlier times, his mom and older sister were hardly able to handle him.

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As he was a pretty wicked type of kid, his mom somehow invented a trick to regulate him, by fearing ghosts and by fearing darkness. Whenever his wicked level was raised up, his mom used to tell a ghost to arrive. Instantly he fell in shock and did not react to anything because of panic. That's how he was acquainted with the fear of knowing anything. Although he was not sure about that, does the ghost truly exist? Or even though It exists, will It appear in front of me, If I do anything wrong?

These kinds of thoughts did not come to his mind while he was facing his mom's scary words. While he was going up, he was gradually used to the reality and realised while he was a kid his mom was telling to him just to make him control. He realised that because while growing up and having a solid judgement in his mind, there he did not detect any kind of similar things that his mom told him.

Finally, a belief deeply held in his brain there is no ghost who can disturb or harm him in any way. Afterwards, a dramatic transformation came in his life, he had been freely going out at the time of night without having any kind of fear in his eyes, and his mom noticed his change. In previous times his mom was concerned just because he feared vastly and even could not sometimes do regular tasks in lonely places.

As he was out of all of his fears, his mom still had bothered about him, in this case, the reason for her concern was; what If her son face Any untoward incident, as he outing lonely even at midnight? He hardly went to his village home and It was a time when his youngest uncle's wedding was going to be held and for his purpose, he had to attend the wedding with his family.

At midnight he went out of his room and went for a solo walk as he used to do this when he felt bored or didn't feel sleepy. While he was out of the room he felt a little bit fresh, watching a full moon above his head. The road was truly empty even though he did not see a single vehicle at that time on the road. But in his town, he saw a lot of lights and a couple of vehicles while walking. Anyway, he was trying to enjoy the great night, he was walking a bit.

As he went far away from his home suddenly the electricity was gone and he was satisfied with that. Because the beauty of moonshine perfectly can observe, in the darkness. Although it was not too dark, the roads were clearly visible in the moonlight. While he was returning home, he saw a shadow like a human frequently and very rapidly running on the road from far away. He was quite shocked, something unusual thoughts were coming into his mind at that time.

He did not have enough courage to move forward and see what that is. Is that a ghost? A question like this knocked on the door of his mind. His both legs were shaking in fear and he had no more to do without going forward because in this way he had to go back to his home. As he went closer to the place, he understood that was a shadow of a bamboo tree and on the full moon night, the flow of air, its leaf's shadow falling on the road which looked horrible to him from a distance. Luckily he came back and he never went out at midnight alone.

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Safi has had a difficult experience. Since childhood he has been considered an evil child and has been instilled with terror and in his youth, although he has been convinced that ghosts do not exist, he has episodes of panic. At The ink well we have a policy of not curating stories that contain violence against people. We are particularly sensitive to child abuse. Thank you for reaching out to our community.

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Thank you for your valuable information. I'm looking at all of it very carefully.

It's fun to see that things worked out in the end for him, it couldn't have been easy to live through all that, thanks for sharing

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