This week for the blog carnival, we’re meant to write about something that scares us. Deciding on a topic has been a struggle, NOT because nothing scares me (lol haha laughing forever) but because too damn many things scare me.
Initially, I thought I might tell you about my long-held and deep-seated phobia of roller coasters, but this didn’t quite fit the brief for me somehow. Phobias are different to fears, in that they aren’t particularly rational. People can be phobic of peanut butter or ducks, for goodness sake. I’m not taking the piss here, those things are genuinely a problem for those people, but I’m sure even they could acknowledge that they make no sense. My phobia of roller coasters is similarly irrational. It’s not even based in a bad experience, I just have a panic attack if I get too close to them/think about them too much/am peer-pressured into lining up for one. So a phobia doesn’t feel quite right, somehow, I need to write about something that scares me for good reason, I think.
I also thought I might blog about the deep fears, the life fears, the things about growing up and living life and fucking it up. But in the end I decided to just write a list, because lists are a cop out rad.
Things that scare me at the present moment:
- Roller coasters - see above
- The dark - don’t pretend it doesn’t scare you shitless too. It’s scary in the dark man, there could be any number of monsters coming to get you.
- Superannuation - how does it even work? Will there really be enough to live on? Why am I thinking about this?
- Thinking about adult things like superannuation.
- Young Liberals - HOW can you be THAT conservative before you’ve even left uni? It reveals something absolutely terrifying about the human race.
- On that note, people who read and accept The Courier Mail really scare me.
- Climate Change - not enough people are scared about this in my opinion.
- Talking to people trying to sign you up for charity donations - this possibly makes me a bad person but it’s so awkward.
- There’s just no nice way to say “I know you are a backpacker making $6 an hour and that saving children is important but NO.
- Small, cramped places where I can’t see the way out.
- Falling pregnant/ thinking about having babies.
- Horror movies... like I know that's what they are meant to do but I really don't enjoy it. WHY AM I PAYING TO WEE MY PANTS AND CRY?
- Bugs that fly at your face. Don’t do that bugs, fly in literally any of the other air that is not right in front of my face.
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So yeah, that about sums it up. The world is basically terrifying and we all have to live in it. I’m sure I’ve forgotten really important things to be scared of, so please, tell me about your fears so I can be like “oh yeah, that horrifying thing, why didn’t I think of that?”
What else is happening this week in the blog carnival??
