[Haunted]

I would rather that they not be so that we don't have to study them. We can create our own monsters in our head, and they won't actually hurt anyone.

I realize that in reading this it may seem as if I'm taking an argumentative tone, and I don't mean to at all. Please don't think I'm trying to be an asshole. I'm just trying to point out that the fact that there are people out there who actually torture and kill people for their own pleasure is very disturbing. For example, what Fish did to little Grace was beyond horrible, and then he wrote her mum a detailed letter. That is so awful and hurtful.

I just think that with all the horrors in the world that we're now aware of... *shudders* I really can't even read the "True Crime" section any more. I'm cool with the fantasy, but I'm growing away from the brutal killing type films and more toward the (I hate this term) supernatural types. There's just too much of that junk in reality and... you know?

I think that's where people are coming from, and I think that in the wake of all of this violence, many people are growing more and more weary of the "real thing." ...Even some of us ol' horror buffs.

The language on the necklace is Sanskrit (took it in college as part of my BA), and the word is "ahimsa." It means, "nonviolence."