It's not quite as bad as it looks. I have no problem with most of these things as long as they are outside and not in my hair or my bra. I've had an issue or two with beetles plunging down my humble cleavage and nestling in my bra while I was outside minding my own business. I've been at Ground Zero of a cicada emergence and had them pelting me and trying to crawl inside my shirt. Wasps and bees tend to go for my hair a lot; I think it has something to do with the shampoo I use. Or maybe they're just attracted to the glorious copper color of my unnaturally red hair. But as long as they stay away from me, there's plenty of room for me and flying creatures in nature.
I love to sit outside at twilight and watch the bats swooping over our backyard. I enjoy watching the sparrows at our bird feeder in winter. I'm happy to see bees flitting from flower to flower in the butterfly garden. But these winged monsters cross a line when they cross my threshold. My fear becomes much bigger than these little creatures with their evil wings. My brain knows I'm bigger than them and tries to talk sense into me. "Really," it says, "who is afraid of sparrows?" And my chicken heart and lily liver reply, "WE ARE!!" Especially bats. Bats in the house are just creepy and there is nothing irrational about that fear.
What is your irrational fear?
It's not quite as bad as it looks. I have no problem with most of these things as long as they are outside and not in my hair or my bra. I've had an issue or two with beetles plunging down my humble cleavage and nestling in my bra while I was outside minding my own business. I've been at Ground Zero of a cicada emergence and had them pelting me and trying to crawl inside my shirt. Wasps and bees tend to go for my hair a lot; I think it has something to do with the shampoo I use. Or maybe they're just attracted to the glorious copper color of my unnaturally red hair. But as long as they stay away from me, there's plenty of room for me and flying creatures in nature.
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I've had a few over my life. Nighttimes that are too quiet (since I come from a city), Conan O'Brien, stepping on cracks, dogs, the dark, that one song by the Pogues.
I've gotten over all of them, except the dark, of course.
I experienced the Cicada emergence once when I went to Cinci....WOW!
But Vi...Sparrows? Really?
Um. My biggest fear is of failure...and I know it's kept me from doing alot of things that I could have done successfully...so I suppose in that way it is quite irrational to be afraid of something you haven't done just because it might not work out.
@lucylwrites - Conan O'Brien is pretty scary...
@Bricker59 - In the house! I watched too much Hitchcock in my youth.
@Xbeautifully_broken_downX - I understand that fear. I'm finally facing it down at the tender age of 53. I wonder what I might have accomplished in life if I'd acted sooner.
People holding knives. I'm always afraid (in the kitchen, for instance) that they're going to accidentally turn around into me and stab me in the chest or drop it on my foot or something. Spiders, of course, is up there. I've gotten a lot better with the little ones though.
Birds.
SNAKES!!!! Even the ones that everyone tells me, "They're harmless!". Simply CANNOT get over my fear of snakes. The only good snake is a dead snake!!!
I don't like snakes either. Or bats. Those are rational fears, I think. Did you know that the best way to kill a bat is with a tennis racket? It messes up their radar. It helps to have a husband who will wield the racket while I hide under the covers.
@ata_grandma - Haha! You are a woman after my own heart! My husband does catch and release instead of whacking with a racquet while I cower behind a throw pillow.
lol ... I have to agree wtih ata_grandma - :) ... I am usually doing the same thing except down here in FLORIDA It is palmetto bugs, and particuarly in my apt.. cause I live right behind a lake it is FROGS!!! Intresting to watch... but terrifying trying to come up the stair well and a big toad is blocking ur path or door way to get in ur apartment... Or invading my beautiful balcony when I want to relax and enjoy my view off my balcony! ARGG! LOL Agrees with you both! Beautiful Post saintvi - Very thought provoking and makes ya stop and think.. and observe those irrational fears in our current everyday life! Almost if you will like the saying goes ya made me "Stop to smell the roses" ... Thanks for that! Lovely post... Glad I friended you and subscribed to you! :) Hugs and Love ~ Your new xanga friend~ Leslie- Ms_BeautyExpert :)
@saintvi - I'm trying it now. I don't like facing it. XD
While living in our 1830's Victorian, I met my first bat. They got in quite frequently. One time I woke up to find one clinging to the quilt that was hanging over my bed. I put my head under the covers and screamed until my daughter Jonae' caught it with our bat catcher (butterfly net). She's forever my hero.
Bats freak me out. I may face multiple natural disasters here in Oklahoma, but there are NO BATS. Works for me!
I have no trouble with any of these, but no living thing needs to be in my cleavage, ever. That's always disturbing.
My irrational fear is vastly more irrational. I'm afraid of rubber snakes. Even when I am quite sure they're rubber, it is much easier to find a stick of some sort with which to pick them up rather than take the time to steel myself to actually pick one up with my hand. Strange thing is, I have actually touched two live snakes, one in a zoo and one in our garden, and not been in the least disturbed by either experience. People are crazy.
most of things :(
I developed a fear of yellowjackets when I was a young teenager: my brother and some friends were walking through the woods at camp when the person in front of Isaiah stepped on a nest, they flew up got him on the face a few times. I've been nervous about stepping on yellowjacket nests since.
I have a fear of wasps getting into my hair. ...mostly because about seven years ago, when my hair was long, I had a wasp get into my hair. I thought it was a fly until I got stung on my finger trying to swipe it out. I got revenge, and it got dead. But I've been afraid of a repeat ever since.
We once had a bat interupt evening service one Sunday.
Good one! My irrational fear, I think is very rational. Fire. The reasons would mean too much typing for this hour.
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