• Question: what is the most thing your scared of?

    Asked by libya4life to Tom, Tim, Sarah, Derek, Dalya on 19 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by aishasabir.
    • Photo: Dalya Soond

      Dalya Soond answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Caterpillars

    • Photo: Tim Millar

      Tim Millar answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Deep water

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      The thing I am most scared of is driving a car. I was in a pretty serious car accident a few years ago and my car was wrecked so I didn’t drive for a while. Then when I tried to get behind the wheel again, I found that I just couldn’t. My stomach felt like it was filled with lead and my heart started thumping and before I knew it I was in floods of tears. This would happen even if I just sat in the driver’s seat and the car wasn’t even running.

      Over a really long period of time, I have overcome my fear and I can drive a car if it’s necessary, but I try to avoid it at all costs because it generally makes me incredibly stressed and usually I cry afterwards!

      I guess the moral of this story is never avoid things that you are afraid of, because it will just grow into a bigger and bigger phobia 🙁

    • Photo: Derek McKay-Bukowski

      Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      There are things that make me nervous (cities) and things that might make be jump (an unexpected noise or insect), however deep fear is not something I don’t often experience.

      I guess the thing that causes the biggest reaction, in terms of physically feeling something, is extreme heights. Recently I was near the edge of a big cliff (100+ metres). That made my stomach cramp up!

    • Photo: Tom Crick

      Tom Crick answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      I agree with Tim, deep water can feel menacing (even thought I have done a night scuba dive in Thailand, which was amazing!). Maybe heights (or more accurately, falling from heights!).

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