Fear Factor Daily Prompt: People are afraid of all kinds of things: spiders, the dark, or being enclosed in small spaces. Tell us about your greatest fear — rational or irrational.
I am a day behind with this, so I guess we can rule out the fear of being late. There is no one major area of crippling paranoia for me. Just a lot of minor annoying (but, of course, completely rational) phobias which I have decided to organize into an alphabetical list.
1. Aliens (especially the ones that are cleverly disguised and walking among us.) (Hey, I’ve seen the documentaries, I know about these things)
2. Bats (the kind that fly around at night wanting to get tangled up in your hair)
3. Cancer
4. Drowning
5. Explosions
6. Falling (hard and awkwardly enough to break bones) (or down an abandoned mine shaft)
7. Germs (and people who don’t wash their germy hands)
8. Heights (rooftops and beyond)
9. Illnesses of the fatal variety
10. Job interviews (avoiding them is the reason I’ve been doing the same job for so long)
11. Karaoke (Really, that shit is scary)
12. Lightning bolts
13. Memory loss and Madness (although if I do go mad, who knows, it might just be a different kind of happy)
14. Natural disasters
15. Oceans
16. Pain
17. Quicksand
18. Roller Coasters
19. Swimming (without a life jacket) (in the ocean) (…which would lead to drowning….)
20. Typhoons
21. Unidentified Flying Objects
22. Violence (physical, verbal, abuse of any kind)
23. Wasps
24. Xenophobia (Yes, I know, fear of a fear. But until we get over our fear of strangers and foreign things, peace on earth will never happen)
25. Yeti
26. Zombies
I probably won’t write a children’s alphabet book based on this list, complete with frightening illustrations, although stranger things have been done with the alphabet. And many of the things I’ve listed (like the last two, for instance), I have no actual personal experience with whatsoever. They just seem to me to be absolutely fear-worthy.
What are you afraid of?
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Definitely #10 for me too. And porcelain dolls.
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That’s an interesting one! They are kind of creepy looking.
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Great list.
I’ll add: snakes, scary movies, deep water/boats.
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Yep – I just realized I avoid all of those things too as much as possible.
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No contest. Snakes. And yes, it’s completely irrational. Thought I’d share a recent post on the same subject. Now you can combine your lists. 🙂
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Thanks Eric 🙂 The only thing my husband freaks out about is snakes too.
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Amazingly, the older I get the less I fear. Storms that knock out power and water are scary because I wouldn’t be able to make coffee and read your blog, but we have few of those. Dianne
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I really should add “fear of not being able to make coffee” to my list. That would be truly terrifying. lol
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Great idea. I’m going to steal it! I know you’ve probably been told this before, but if there’s any animal that will per definition never get tangled in your hair, it’s a bat. Because of sonar.
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I’m still afraid I will meet up with the only bat on earth whose sonar malfunctions. I’m sure he’s out there somewhere.
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😀
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I used to be terrified of spiders but when I found myself home alone with my children and found that a spider had found its way into their bedroom, I killed it. I guess that some things can be conquered given the right incentives.
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Awesome. Yes it’s amazing what a mom will do when it involves keeping her kids safe.
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What have you got against the poor Yeti??????
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Well they’re big and nasty looking and run around all hairy and naked in the snow. Other than that, nothing I guess. 🙂
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The list of fears is long! I am afraid of cockroaches and rats for sure.Plus all the things you mentioned above…
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I have never seen a real live cockroach. So lucky me. 🙂
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