When were you last really scared?We'd been watching the Shining. We were staying in an old church building. In hindsight, taking the shortcut home after midnight, in the mist, through the old graveyard was a bad idea.
I'm not sure what started it, but suddenly all the hairs on my neck had gone up and I was crapping myself. It was almost as bad as when, after a few cups of coffee too many and buzzing on caffeine, I got freaked out by my own reflection in the toilets.
When were you last really scared?
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chthonic, Thu 22 Feb 2007, 15:43)
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The fear of failureFear of failure is a different kind of fear to that of fear for your life but in a way its worse because its an invented fear given to us by authority figures. We are hard-wired to fear certain things, for example, babies show fear at snakes, but not at the prospect of failing their GCSE's. That has to be taught.
The other night I had a dream that I was once again a 17 year old about to drop out of A-level Chemistry, and I felt all the fear and anxiety of being labeled a failure by my parents, teachers & peers, which is what happened.
When I woke up it took a few seconds to remember that I was a thirty year old accountant and I was in MY house and there was no need to be afraid.
Chemistry teachers, I shit 'em.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 22 Feb 2007, 17:10,
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