Recently, one of my friends sent me an email asking me to describe five childhood terrors I had. I promised to her I would reply to this, but only on my blog. So I can pass this annoying tag to the blogosphere 
Here it goes.
- I was afraid of the dark. I couldn’t sleep without my many teddy bears because I thought they would protect me against evil forces. Also, my mom had to let a little light on in my bedroom.
- Sleeping Beauty terrified me when I was little. In fact, I was afraid of Maleficent. She reminds me of my chief editor…
- Likewise, I hated the E.T. movie. I remember going to the cinema with my dad when I was 4, and I basically cried and screamed during the movie until my dad had enough and took us out of the cinema. (how to embarrass your parents in public…)
- Santa Claus crept me out until I understand there was a man underneath and that his beard was a fake, to my great pleasure.
5.And finally, I couldn’t watch Thriller. Back then, I was afraid of the monster Michael Jackson turned into in the music video. His looks now just leaves me speechless…
So, here’s now my pleasure to tag some people. Ellis, Cricket, Shae, WIGSF, WishBoNE (I know you like it) and DDTD, do me a favor.
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August 8, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Okay, I’ll take the tag.
August 9, 2008 at 10:26 am
five of my childhood fears were…
1. a nuclear war — since i grew up in the shadow of the cold war in reagan’s america prior to the dissolution of the soviet union, the thought of a nuclear war was ever present and scary as hell. there was a movie on tv called “the day after” which was about the days after a nuclear war. i was pretty much convinced me that a nuclear war was inevitable.
2. losing my mother — my father had already passed away when i was very young, and i was always worried about who would raise my brother and me if our mother also passed away…
3. interestingly enough, i was also extremely terrified when i watched the movie “e.t.” when i was eight or so. my brother somehow convinced me to pick that movie to watch at the theater, and it freaked the hell out of me and caused me numerous nightmares. but then, movies dealing with aliens like “close encounters of the third kind” always scarred me.
4. taking showers whenever i was home alone — one of my many irrational fears was having my eyes closed while shampooing my hair in the shower only to hear the bathroom door being open and shut with some one coming in and switching off the lights. i would always take a bath instead and keep an eye on the door.
5. ghosts — i honestly believe one of the homes my family lived in was sort of haunted. strange things would happen at strange times… which was why i was always so afraid to take showers at home when no one else was there, especially at night.
brrr…
August 9, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Thank you for taking the tag, Ellis.
It’s curious how we can be scared about certain things, while other people can’t. There must be an explanation for all of our irrational fears, but it needs a psychologist to analyze this. I’m sorry for your father.
Besides, what was thinking Steven Spielberg when he decided filming E.T.?
October 31, 2008 at 5:37 pm
it is very curious…
sometimes i think people are better defined by what they fear rather than what they believe. and as for an explanation, i think our childhood fears has a lot to with the important things in our lives that we feel we have so little control over… like the dark.