What Are You Afraid Of?

Everyday, well almost everyday, I tell myself that I'm going to write a blog post, but, as you can tell by gap of time inbetween this post and my last, I never seem to find the time.

And by "never finding time", I really mean that I waste my time doing things like Facebook creeping, procrastinating on my homework, reading books other than the ones assigned to me by my English teacher-- those kinds of things.

Anyway, it's Spring Break and the majority of my friends have abandoned me to have their own fun adventures in Colorado, Georgia and even Italy. Yes, that's right, the Varsity Choir trip this year was to Italy, and guess whose mother wouldn't let them go-- THIS GIRL. (Not that I'm bitter or anything...) So I decided to take a break from my book (Looking for Alaska by John Green) to write a blog post and watch Kathy Griffin do some stand-up comedy.

A couple days ago I was thinking about how so many people have this irrational dislike, even fear, of insects and arachnids. Then I started thinking about how everyone has irrational fears, but how exactly do people get these fears? I mean they can't just come from nowhere. So today my friends, I am going to psychoanalyze some of these irrational fears and share my thoughts on how these fears possibly came to be. Sound like fun? Good-- let's get started:

Spiders:
An incredibly cliché fear, in my opinion, but as one of the top ten fears its source must be addressed.

Possible Causes:
1. Your parents let you watch one too many scary movies as a small child and the creepy spiders finally got to you.
2. When you were young, you found a large, African bird-eating tarantula hiding in the sheets your parents bought you from Sears. (This actually happened to a friend of mine.)
3. You have fallen prey to the creepy spider stereotype that society has pushed upon us for centuries. Shame on you.

Dolls:
I seriously have two girls in my English class who are legitimately afraid of dolls. I find this fear both concerning and fascinating.

Possible Causes:
1. You came home from Elementary school one day to discover that your younger brother had beheaded your entire Barbie doll collection, scarring you for life.
2. Your parents let you watch Chucky when you were like five.

Frankly I don't understand why that Chucky movie scares people...

I mean, just look at that face-- totes presh.

Heights:
This is one fear that I can sort of see where people are coming from. Personally, I'm not really afraid of heights, but it's really easy to see where people who have this fear are coming from.

Possible Causes:
1. Your dad or older brother did that thing where they pretend to push you off a very high structure when you were young, which caused deep, emotional scarring.
2. You were forced to ride the Hollywood Tower of Terror as a child.
3. You are extraordinarily tall and have a great appreciation for irony.

I'm aware that there are various other irrational fears that I could address today, but I feel that this blog post has already become too long, so we will save that for another day's session of Dr. Em... Until then, please feel free to entertain yourself by watching Charlieissocoollike and reading Harry Potter.