Thursday, February 23, 2023

Irrational Fear...Or Is It?

We all have a fear of something. I have a few, but one of them, I would say, is quite irrational. Or so I thought until recently.

About two blocks from our house is a train track (on a small hill, not flat, so there’s a bridge you walk or drive under). Since we’ve lived here, I have feared that I’ll be in the shower and the train will derail (in the shower is my fear, nowhere else in the house), a round car will detach and roll through other houses and crash into mine, right into ME while taking a shower (our bathroom is on the end of the house where the backyard is and the train tracks two blocks beyond that).

Now, I am slightly claustrophobic, so while taking a shower freaks me out anyway, the thought of something crashing through and annihilating me causes extreme fear—one that I thought of as irrational, because what are the odds?

Recently, however, with the train derailments in Ohio and Nebraska, I think my fear isn’t so irrational after all. Seems awfully ironic that two derailments happened so close to each other (time-wise).

So…yeah. Now my fear is more heightened, and I’m thinking it's not so irrational after all.


 What are your fears?

 

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1 comment:

  1. I know what you mean about both the shower fear and slight claustrophobia. I have anxiety about feeling trapped in certain situations and/or settings. Being rational or irrational about a fear doesn't make it feel any less real.

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