10 Day You Challenge - 8 Fears
- Heights. But it's a weird afraid of heights. Being in an airplane is fine, because it's almost surreal. Being in a tall building is fine as long as I look out instead of down. But I get pretty panicked if I have to look down from a tall height.
- Flying things. Birds, insects, you name it. If it flies, it freaks me out.
- Something bad happening to Rich or the boys. I don't know what I'd do in that instance.
- My father's death. He's been in bad health for a long time. But I'm a Daddy's girl. Always have been. And he could be here for 20 more years, or 2. I don't want to lose him.
- Spiraling down into the farthest depths of depression. I've been pretty low. There isn't much lower that I can go. But it scares me that someday, I will.
- Painful death. Death in and of itself doesn't scare me. I have my beliefs about what will happen after that death, but I don't want it to hurt. That just gives me the shudders.
- Dementia. My step-mom was a care-unit coordinator for an Alzheimer's unit when I was in high school. I still remember many of the patients, moving between being clear about who they were and falling back to a time they didn't remember their own children. I don't want to be that person.
- Spiders and snakes. They aren't as bad as flying things, but they're still creepy crawlies that can bite!
