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BY RHICK LARS VLADIMER ALBAY
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Laughter in the dark
YOU’VE shared that the sincerity of a person’s laugh is easily revealed by their eyes.
The narrower one’s eyes close while laughing, the more at ease they are with the people around them. Someone laughing with their eyes wide open may not be truly expressing how they feel.
This, you say, is because of man’s innate fear of the dark, traced way back to the time when our forbearers dwelled in caves, huddling around a single fire, fearing the unknown that lay beyond the safety of their caverns.
Back then, closing one’s eyes meant surrendering yourself to the uncertainty of darkness, with all of its dangers and pitfalls. Only as they gathered around the warmth of a pyre did our ancestors start to close their eyes and give in to night’s call for sleep.
We may have outgrown our forbearers, moved out of caves, harnessed light and electricity, but still before falling asleep, we search our walls for shape-shifting figures.
Walking home after dark, we nervously count the number of shadows cast on the ground, looking over our shoulders every once in a while to make sure there’s no one else there but us.
Eyes search dark alleys and unlit streets, half-expecting the worst to emerge from the crevices and corners of the pitch-black darkness.
The night shrouds all things with the same shadowy mantle, obscuring our sight, replacing the vivid colors we see by day with shades of black.
We fear what we can’t see, we fear the unknown that hides in the folds of the night, we fear uncertainty.
But as we laugh, we close our eyes as a sign of trust in the people around us. Good friends and family, we huddle around each other’s warmth, knowing that the night can’t harm us.
We face our fears head on, as our laughter rings in the darkness./PN
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