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mancalledtrue ([personal profile] mancalledtrue) wrote2012-10-05 08:31 pm
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Things I Fear: Fifth

Are there really thirty-one things I fear?  We'll find out.  Here's the fifth.



#5: BODIES OF WATER

I decided to be more specific than "water".  I can handle pools just fine.

I can't swim.  I've never had an aptitude for learning how.  So I have a deep chill whenever I have to travel over large rivers or lakes.  God forbid my plane has to fly over the ocean; as much as I'd love to travel to Japan, I think the flight would kill me from nervousness alone.

It's a matter of duration, of course - one of my favorite walking paths involves a brief bridge over a stream.  The longer the journey, the more the fear... for the most part.  I get nervous riding the ferries at Disneyland, and that's five minutes over a manmade lagoon I could probably stand in.