Sunday, March 17, 2013

Things that freak me out

People have been telling me lately that I am brave. Which sounds like I'm bragging but it is true. My friends and relatives have been telling me that I am brave for the things I am doing. Mostly moving aboard and then going to graduate school abroad.

It is very nice of them to say but I don't think these choices make me brave. Because I wasn't scared of moving abroad.
Being brave is doing things that scare you. I know this because I have had to be brave sometimes.

Anyway. I decided to do a blog on things that scare me.


 1. Poisoned lip balm. I have a fear when I buy new lip balm that some psycho will have poisoned it and my lips will burn up or fall off.  So far neither has happened. Yet.

2. That I will be on the bus and the bus driver will turn out to be a terrorist and take the whole coach captive. Again, this hasn't happened yet.






3. Spiders and snakes. Most people are afraid of only one. seriously, this picture alone is giving me the shivers. 


4. Going blind and not being able to read or see the visual story telling in film. Sorry no image could do this terror justice.

5. People. People kind of scare me.  I think it is left-over shyness from my childhood. As a friend pointed out it was pretty ironic that I was always worried about who my roommates would be when I went back to school, but the  idea of moving in with strangers across the Atlantic was fine with me.

6. Sales Associates are especially terrifying. I always tell them I don't need help even when I do because they scare me. Even in Lush, my all time favorite store, with the all time best staff-- well, basically I choose which product to look at based on how close the customer service staff are to the product and how likely they are to pounce on me if I look at it.

7. Cars and driving are possibly the most terrifying things to me. See look at this picture. Tell me this menace  doesn't look like it is scowling, planning out demise.












8. Talking on the phone. Almost as scary as driving a car.


So, see I am not inherently brave. I am just not afraid of average things. 





 

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