Personal: Countdown Day 4: 7 Fears/Phobias

[escritoireazul]

Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you're addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can't live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won't forget
Day 8 - Three words you can't go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust


Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias

I'm not sure I have seven fears/phobias. There are plenty of things that make me anxious or stressed, but things I actually fear...

1. Spiders. This is the only thing that rises to the level of a phobia. Spiders terrify me. The fucking word can make me shiver, depending on the mood I'm in, and even just a cute little cartoon spider freaks me the fuck out. I can survive them if I must, I can kill them when I'm the only one home, because otherwise they're out there coming to get me, but god, I hate them.

I spend a great deal of time asking WHY IS IT ALWAYS GIANT SPIDERS?!

Oh, fandoms, come on now.

2. Heights. I actually like the feeling of fear that comes from heights. I push myself to stand on the edge of things and look down. This can be dangerous, because I have no balance, but still. I love that frisson of fear.

3. Umm ... I think I'm done. Things that make me anxious aren't things that make me fearful. Maybe things like being a complete and utter failure fall under here, but that always seems more like anxiety when I'm dealing with it. I dread the death of people I love, but I don't fear it.

Oh, I don't know. I feel like I'm overthinking this.

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[umadoshi]

*shudders* I still can't quite believe that the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter movie franchises both hit the point of GIANT SPIDERS so close together, in terms of when they were in theatres. So very not okay.

(In my memory both of those movies came out in the same year, but maybe they weren't quite that close together? It's been a long time, obviously. ^^;)