Our Private Monsters

A very close friend said something interesting the other day that’s stuck in my mind. She’s a very gentle, refined soul with extremely sophisticated taste, so it shocked me when she said she really likes horror films. Taken aback, I asked why. She said because in a horror film you always know who/what the monster is, whereas in life we don’t. Too often we’re being surprised in shitty ways by things and people we thought were okay, but unexpectedly turned out to be ‘monsters.’ It made me think...