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Nothing to fear but fear itself
But there are so many TYPES. . .
- aerophobia - dread of fresh air, or air in motion. Probably caused by over-exposure to games consoles in early childhood. I can't help but wonder how sufferers of this manage to breathe...
- agyiophobia - fear of being in the street. Since "The Street" in this country often refers to the soap opera "Coronation Street", I can actually understand this one :o)
- aichmophobia - fear of being touched by a finger. The original "itch you just can't scratch"?
- ataxiophobia - fear of untidiness. I think my mother and girlfriend would both agree this is one that I certainly don't suffer from :o)
- basiphobia - fear of walking. Appears to be widespread in America - Presumably it's the opposite of amaxophobia, or fear of riding in a vehicle.
- chromophobia - fear of colors. How, exactly, does this one work?
- chronophobia - fear of the duration of time. I can't decide if sufferers would avoid watches like the plague, or wear several very, very accurate ones.
- eosophobia - fear of the dawn. Can I use this as an excuse to always have a lie-in? :o)
- ergasiophobia - fear of doing work. I've definitely got this one :o)
- gephyrophobia - fear of crossing a bridge. I blame the three billy goats gruff for this.
- gymnophobia - fear of the sight of the naked body. If they could find a way of inducing this, the internet would collapse overnight :o)
- kinesophobia - fear of movement. How easy it would be to taunt these people. "The earth revolves at a thousand miles an hour! ahahaha!"
- levophobia - fear of objects on the left. Exactly 50% of the entire universe scares these people.
- panphobia - fear of absolutely everything. I dread to think how the therapy sessions must go...
- phobophobia - the fear of developing a phobia. Presumably one simply points out that suffering from this one means you already are suffering from a phobia, and they can then stop worrying about it.
- tremophobia - fear of trembling. Since fear causing people to shiver, this one must be really tricky to stop once it starts...
All the above are genuine phobias. Amazing, eh?
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(yes I had to copy and paste- I can't spell it) :)
One of my favourite teachers would do a lesson about how words have roots using the variety of phobias as examples.
But the medical dictionary I was leafing through at the time was of the opinion that aichmophobia refers to being touched by any kind of pointer, including a finger. So I went with that, because I'm lazy :o)
Strictly speaking, I believe the best term for fear of injections and/or hypodermic needles would be "trypanophobia"
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I was giddy and hopeful when I first met Cary and spent a brief amount of time with him.
The week after that I was happily high on the idea of what could be, the possibility of getting to know someone interesting and intriguing, the wide open potential of what could be.
And I wanted to tell my friends all about him and what had, and hadn't happened, but I also wanted to keep it to myself, sealed safely in the happy bubble that was floating inside me. So I talked to some close friends about him, told them he lived in Vancouver and they, meaning well, told me quite firmly that they would not allow me to go through another long distance relationship. That I shouldn't even consider it.
My bubble had been burst.
I was completely deflated. Hurt. Let down.
I talked to C-Dawg, a sad tinge to the story now that I'd been told it could. . . should never work out.
"Vancouver?" she said, her voice somewhere between amused and incredulous. "That's not long distance! Get serious. Go for it."
And I let my bubble maybe start to re-inflate. Cautiously. Maybe just a little.
Then I talked to my friend about Cary. She said good things.
Maybe there was reason to be hopefully optimistic. Maybe it was ok to be a little girly and dreamy over what-ifs.
I went for a walk with S. We had life to catch up on.
Life including Cary and the story that still makes me smile.
She encouraged me to get his email, which I did, and then she went home and tried to find out what she could about him.
See, I'm not on Facebook. (No, really.) But S is, and in the small world way that Facebook seems to work, she found that Cary and she had a mutual friend and so she looked him up for me. (The modern background check.)
You can sometimes tell a lot about a person by what they put on their Facebook, she cautioned me. Sometimes.
How old is he?
Me: I don't know.
Is he a smoker?
Me: Um, I don't know? (God, I hope not)
Could he maybe be a little bit immature?
Me: I don't know. I suppose.
Well, he seems like a good guy. Cute. Interesting. I'd say he was my type, you know. (We laugh, we already know we share similar excellent taste in men.)
"I say go for it." She says, "just be aware that he's human. Not perfect."
I don't want to hear it.
Don't want to know the reality of him.
Find myself running away from all the what might have been's towards it'll never work what what I thinking's.
It's all or nothing. Perfect or awful. It'll work or it'll be a disaster.
And I realize that my bubble, the one that's been growing and floating inside me will burst on its own, without anyone's help if I get too far into imagining just how great Cary is, how great we'd be together, how perfectly perfect it all will be.
I'm Icarus. My friends don't want me flying too close to the sun.
But I like the feeling.
I like the soaring giddiness of how utterly fantastic this thing I've found will be.
Every single time I meet someone I like that feeling.
And I ride it higher and higher until I'm flapping my bare arms, feathers fallen into the sea and the crash is coming, the relationship splintering and I'm left staring at the brokenness wondering how on earth I could have been so wrong again.
The extremes are familiar. Addictive perhaps.
But I'm trying to learn to ride in the middle.
Safer. A shorter distance to fall.
A smaller bubble to burst.
Expectations that can be met and exceeded.
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