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War Chest Wednesday: Fears

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Fear is a red eyed devil
A satanic illusion rising
Out of the traumas of my childhood.

The War Chest Wednesday prompt from a previous challenger for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" 
Write about your fears...fears that you have overcome, and fears which still exist within you.

What fears have I overcome? The main fear I've overcome is arachnophobia. Spiders no longer frighten me to the point of insanity. I can kill a spider without thinking that its ghost will come back to haunt me. When I dream of spiders are no longer a signs of fear. Now a spider in my dream is just a warning sigh that I need to look closer at the stress in my immediate environment.

Another fear I've overcome is putting my writing out there for others to read. This is a fear I deal with all the time, but instead of backing down from placing my writing before the public I post my writing for other people to see. I suppose this is a fear every author deals with at one time or another. I know I'm not alone in being afraid of what other people will say when they read a story or poem I've written.

What am I afraid of? There are still a number of things in my life or mind that cause me fear. I have learned to deal with the fear by putting everything in God's hand. I's also dealing with my fears by facing them one at a time. Sometimes the only way I can face them is to put them in poetry or a short story, but I am dealing with them. One fear I'm confronting is hypochondriaphobia, the irrational fear that I'm afflicted with hypochondria.

One fear at a time
I face an unknown future
One day at a time.