Journal 25

You can have a lot fears throughout your lifetime. I know that I am sixteen and I am still scared of any kind of spider there is out there. Fear can be defined as an emotion that comes from danger, evil, or pain. Say if I had a broken leg and I was in track. I would be in fear that I would never be able to run again depending on how much the pain is and how badly I had broke my leg. There was one time that I really felt fear and I will never feel the same about spiders ever again. I was at my old house playing in the backyard and we had a huge backyard back then. My sister and I were playing on the play set that we had when we were little. It was really hot outside and I did not know what I wanted to drink so I started to head inside when I stopped right under a tree because my sister asked me to get her something too. So I was about to head inside and my sister says STOP really loudly. I did not know what to do and that is when I started to get scared. I thought that she might be mad at me or there is something that is not good that is about to happen. She said look up and I swear it was the biggest spider I had ever seen. It was black and red and I thought it was a black widow. It was literally a centimeter away from my head and I just stood there. I can tell when I am really scared because I do not move when something scary happens. I just stand in one spot and wait until that scary thing goes away. Well my mom came right over and took that spider away from the top of my head and I think that that is where I started to hate spiders with a burning passion. That day is a day that I really felt fear. Fear for me is a bad thing. When I think of fear I really don't want to have to do anything that has to do with fear.