I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Bene Gesserit rite
A lot of people have phobia's, it is kind of normal. Females usually fear snakes more than males. I personally fear spiders because they can be on me without my knowing it. Everytime I come across a snake, it is usually tripping over itself to get away from me, if you can imagine a snake tripping over itself. Except for rattlesnakes, I tried to nail one with a rock once to get it out of the road so I could drive on without running it over, and the little rascal took off, but directly to where I was standing!
You must have known what a snake was at age three or four, and to fear them, which could be attributed to a host of reasons. Overhearing adults talking about them; a brother dangling a real or fake snake near you to scare you; coming across one and innocently wanting to play with it, only to have the thing bare its teeth at you. A natural ativistic instinctual fear of them arising from the sub-conscious, and I don't want to over-rule past life experiences.
Now, normal daily anxieties that arise can be cast into the 'fear of little snakes' file, which I would call transferrence. This does two things; it saves one the bother of examining anxieties so as to handle problems while they are still small problems; and it magnifies the size of the 'fear of little snakes' file. You can pick on me for that. I deserve it. I've been in a rascally mood since the sun started making days longer.
Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement.
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You have to believe in the impossible in order to become.