I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.
The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.
Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.
I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.
It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.
I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'
One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.
I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.