Facing Fears

I am not too great of a story teller, nor can I recall my past too easy, but I do know that I have many fears. Many of them are similar to most everyone elses' fears. Some of them include the fear of heights, a fear of bees, and my greatest fear which is glossophobia, or speaking in public. I can manage each of them, however they make my anxiety heighten extensively. These three fears are rated pretty equal if I was to rate them from least fearful to most.

I have always been scared of heights ever since I was a child, but the fear wasn't with me forever. For some reason I loved climbing trees. I would climb all the way to the top and just sit there watching the view from way above everyone and everything. It was one of my greatest past times. One day I was climbing in a tree, the tree was quite thin at the time, and I reached up to grab another branch and made it. Then when I had put all of my weight on the limb, it snapped. The branch broke off of the tree leaving a little stubble poking out; as I fell to the ground I had scrapped my stomach all the way up to my ribcage on the broken branch. I now have a scar from it and I always will. Now because of this incident I have began to fear heights with the fear of any support failing me and causing me to fall.

My fear of bees hasn't always been with me either. My fear of bees had come to be after an accident I had run into as a child also. I can recall back to I was maybe about four or five years old when I was just minding my own buisiness, I had one of my five sisters pulling me in the Little Red Wagon we used to own. All of a sudden a bee flew out of no where and stung me right on the forehead. Thank goodness I wasn't allergic to them! I began to cry and my siste...

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...to her when we were both younger. My words actually came out clear even with my body shaking; and after the speech, my instructor had loved the way I read. My reading was strong and clear and had wanted the class to take notes on how I presented. From that day on public speaking has become a little easier for me, but I know that if I am forced to speak infront of a large group whom I may not know, that I will have a hard time with it.

Though i may have many fears here and there, my most common and recognized fears are the fear of heights, bees, and public speaking. If I am with other people, or if I am forced to face any of these fears I know I will be able to handle myself without completely freaking out or having too extrodanary of a panic attack. I have faced each of my fears and I have conquered them. I know what I should do when I have to face them again.