"Fear is an emotional response induced by a perceived threat, which causes a change in the brain and organ function, as well as in behavior. Fear can lead us to hide, to run away, or to freeze in our shoes. Fear may arise from a confrontation or from avoiding a threat, or it may come in the form of a discovery."
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I have two types of fear. There’s the spider and needles and then there’s the fear of disappointing your family and fear of losing someone you love. I'm scared of leading a selfish life too.
This is me in Kenya. I am standing somewhere I shouldn't be standing at all. I went out to chill with the wild animals. No lion got me, luckily. The only animal that ruined this trip was a poisonous sea urchin.
I asked 35 people what they feared, here is what they said:
Spiders (5)
Car accidents (This is from a guy that is a pro skydiver.)
Loneliness
The future and the world's future
Diseases
My kids getting sick or harmed
Hamsters (scared to death) and ladies (This is a grown man with a beard.)
My girlfriend. No, I can’t say that. Spiders, small ones especially.
Horses and heights – and high horses!
My kids in the traffic
Antibiotic resistant bacteria and high speed
Flying, spiders and getting fired
Wasps
Spiders and needles
My mother in law (This guys wanted to be anonymous.)
Spiders and balloons. (This mother of two has a hard time at birthday parties.)
The dentist, wasps and spiders
Dying
Drunk, old ladies at the bus
Spiders, losing my mom or getting robbed
Scary people in the dark
Heights
Heights, the dentist and my daughter getting sick again
Donald Trump and heights
Ticks and ….. strawberries (I went to school with this girl, she is even afraid of the word strawberry.)
Turning blind or deaf
Horses and living a life without purpose and fulfilment
No women answered “nothing”, but four men answered that they weren't scared of anything.
Why spiders?
Why do we fear these small assholes with eight legs and fury bodies? At least in Norway, they’re not dangerous. It seems like a lot of the people I talked to are suffering from arachnophobia, myself included. I mean, I’m not very scared. I do kill them when I have to, without screaming. But they freak me out. They are very unpredictable and I’m a control freak.
What are your fears?
Susanne