The Confused Chocolate Eater: Fears and Phobias

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Fears and Phobias

Every human being is gifted with fear. Some ungrateful humans think that nothing can scare them, they’re fearless, invincible. To tell you the truth, an arrogant bastard is and will always be a coward. Although he is strong and brave, he will always be afraid to lose.

Everyone has their own fear. My dad is ophidiophobic, which is afraid of snakes. Funny, he used to be in the military in his younger days. Didn’t soldiers live in the jungle or something? While they’re at war, I mean.

My sayang is afraid of confined spaces or better known as claustrophobia. If I’m a big, tall giant and I’m stuck in box, I will know how it feels. My brother tortured me by trapping me in my mam’s travel case once. It wasn’t funny man.

My oh-so-macho brother is astrapophobic and acrophobic. He is afraid of thunder-lightning and heights. What a wuss! Hasif’s father is afraid of blood or homophobia. The moment he sees a drop of blood, he’ll faint. That bad. No wonder he’s a corporate lawyer.

I am suffering from selachophobia, fear of sharks. It’s all my brother’s fault. He made me watch Jaws when I was just a skinny lil twit. How terrible! Since then whenever I swim whether it’s a swimming hole or the ocean, I’ll start imagining bad things. Ya know what I mean. I once caught a small sand shark while fishing in Pulau Sibu. The moment I saw it, I threw my fishing rod at my dad and ran to my mam. In the end, I won the title ‘most catch’. I caught 54 fishes, including the shark in 3 days. Not bad eh. I may love animals but not once will i ever be near or swim with the sharks.

Do you have any serious phobia(s)? Come, tell me. Type it at the chatbox and state your name too.

"I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me."
---- William Shakespeare - Macbeth

"Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it."
---- Lt. John B. Putnam Jr. (1921-1944) - Band of Brothers