What are you afraid of?

Coronavirus is actually scaring me now, not the symptoms, it's about the isolation lock downs. This could be bad for many people who need to go out and get supplies for animals. I don't normally give a dam about this kind of stuff, but I have a feeling its going to hit the fan
 
Heights. Even standing on a first floor balcony and looking down makes me feel like my innards are falling out. I don’t know when or why that developed.

Guns. If I see armed police I will walk a path that’s as far away from them as possible. Now imagine I come from a country where people have guns at home. I once stayed At my uncle’s house. They heard their cows making sound in the middle of the night (unusual) so he went to investigate. I saw him walk past carrying a gun (long barrel type). Put the 🤬 up me and I just covered my head!

I enjoy fireworks but it took a long time. And up to now the big ones do give me a jolt. There was a war before we moved here. Bombs, shootings, fighting between the rivals. Our house was robbed several times. My parents were once taken away. Bombs. My uncle was shot dead. Brother (unknowingly) handled a grenade. So the fireworks kind of (vaguely) remind me of that.

Sorry that was a big heavy 😁
 
It is. It was harder for my parents than for me (or my siblings), but they had to take us out of that situation. I don’t want to say much but there was an element of my parents’ lives (and subsequently ours) being in danger.

We made it through, and although I don’t spout much, I believe God gave my parents the wisdom to get us out of that situation. And it wasn’t an easy start here but they did it 😊
 
Black piggies said:
That's really horrible! Why do adults invade children's space like that. My son was thrown upside down as a young child by a cousin I know well, but was a stranger to my son. He won't even do a forward roll now as he won't go upside down.
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Oh yeah, I knew I was forgetting something XD

I'm also afraid of forward rolls or anything similar. I think it comes from a day at school that I fell rolling down the stairs? I'm not really quite sure as I was really small but I think it's from there. Things got worse when we had to do forward rolls in primary school, as a teacher forced me to do them. I kept crying constantly and he still made me do them with an "you'll see it's nothing, you'll lose the fear" (spoiler: didn't happen) attitude.
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Yep, it stays with you. What happened with my situation was, a dinner lady stood me up in front of the whole school, I was crying alot, and she said look everyone, look what a baby he is, and I remember everyone laughing loads out loud at me. And I had to stand there for about half hour like it against a wall. Just because some group in the year above were messing about. I wasn't involved or even saying anything. Now everything I do I doubt myself, it isn't just public speaking, it affects my work and like you, when I'm afraid to say anything incase I look stupid. It affects what I think people think of me. And I can tell its that because that same feeling comes flooding right back to me from that moment, it's weird...🤔

I feel so sorry for kids who have had worse things done to them by weirdos or beaten and abused. I can see how it scars people for life. So sad. That dinner lady died of cancer anyway now, and I'm glad, some people deserve to die early
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Take comfort in the fact that she was probably an ugly inside person & not a happy one. As Roald Dahl once said (seeing as it is book week):

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely"
 
Darcey15 said:
Take comfort in the fact that she was probably an ugly inside person & not a happy one. As Roald Dahl once said (seeing as it is book week):

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely"
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I learnt a long time ago not to judge a person by what they looked like. This particular man looked really rough and his hands had home made tattoos with TRUE and LOVE on either hand. I thought (just by the look of him) that he would be really horrible and nasty. He was the nicest kindest man that you could ever meet. I have never judged by looks since.
 
Very true. When my son was a preschooler we were in McDonald's and sitting near some very rough looking travellers. My son fell backwards off his stool onto his head and these people I'd been judging rushed to lift him, got ice from staff and comforted me. Lesson learned that day.
 
OK guys don't laugh but I have a huge phobia of plastic balls, like the ones from a ball pit 😂 I can't go near that Isle in the shop in summer and daddy has to take the kids to birthday parties their invited too 🙈 no joke it's actually awful 😂

I can't even look at photos of them 😂
 
Emx93 said:
OK guys don't laugh but I have a huge phobia of plastic balls, like the ones from a ball pit 😂 I can't go near that Isle in the shop in summer and daddy has to take the kids to birthday parties their invited too 🙈 no joke it's actually awful 😂

I can't even look at photos of them 😂
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Aw, that must be difficult if you have kids, do you know how it started?
 
Bill & Ted said:
Aw, that must be difficult if you have kids, do you know how it started?
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I have no memory but apparently on my third birthday I was in a soft play in the ballpool (my family having a meal next door) when at 9pm they turned all the lights off and locked up 😱 apparently I was screaming my head off when my parents finally found me, but it's more the look of the balls, especially when they get squished it's awful 😂🙈😷 I also don't like vomit 🤮 and I had hyperemesis in pregnancy so that was fun 😂
 
Emx93 said:
I have no memory but apparently on my third birthday I was in a soft play in the ballpool (my family having a meal next door) when at 9pm they turned all the lights off and locked up 😱 apparently I was screaming my head off when my parents finally found me, but it's more the look of the balls, especially when they get squished it's awful 😂🙈😷 I also don't like vomit 🤮 and I had hyperemesis in pregnancy so that was fun 😂
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Oh that sounds like a horrible experience! I’m the same with vomit after a girl was sick on my shoe in assembly when I was 6. it’s no joke hyperemesis but if you hate vomit that must be horrible x
 
Bill & Ted said:
Oh that sounds like a horrible experience! I’m the same with vomit after a girl was sick on my shoe in assembly when I was 6. it’s no joke hyperemesis but if you hate vomit that must be horrible x
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I spent a lot of time in hospital when pregnant it was awful! I'm terrified of stomach bugs too because I seem to dehydrate easily and end up in hospital, but with 3 young kids we get several a year 🏥😷 but yeah I don't understand the ball thing, even one singular ball sends me over the edge, total nightmare! 😱😓
 
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