Fears II

I greatly fear dark bodies of water. I imagine that unseen creatures of the deep will rise up to the surface, only to carry me back down with them.

I think this fear may be a relatively new one. I don't remember having it as a young child. I remember being very scared last June, when Eric showed me a natural spring. I couldn't see the bottom, and was scared that something would come up and grab me while I was swimming around.

At the waterfall in the picture, my fear manifested itself again. Ben, the person who is jumping, encouraged me to try jumping off a ledge. I don't think the fear of heights or of breaking my head on a rock kept me from doing it. I think I didn't want to do it because the water was so dark and deep that I was sure some glowing, unclassified monster was ready to strike an unsuspecting tourist like me at any moment. Thus, I refused to swim across the turbulent water.

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