Afraid of the Dark?

It starts when we are little.  We fear the monsters that hide in the shadows.  We might not see the monsters when we are kids, but eventually, they come out.  Life reveals its own monsters at different times and some are scarier than others.  Every person has them.  Every person deals with the hurt and the sadness and the guilt they bring.  How do we overcome our fear of the dark and the monsters that exist there?  I feel it is by realizing that we are all imperfect.  We all carry a dark side and real struggles that we have to deal with daily.  I believe to overcome our fear of the dark, we have to accept our own dark, and walk hand in hand with our friends/family that are just trying to deal with theirs.  We can't do this life on our own.  We need real connections.  We need depth.  And in order to get deep, you can't be scared of the dark!