Cities
Chicago especially
However, entering or exiting cities is a legit nightmare.
Scary Gary has entered the chat.
Ending capitalism to embrace a system where we end poverty, consumerism and discriminations.
Have a day off.
Asking someone out on a date.
I had social anxiety for years, so I probably struggled with this more than most. But it’s surprisingly easy. And more often than not, if your instincts are that that person likes you, you’re usually right.
Universal healthcare. So scary only 33 of the world’s 34 most modernized countries have managed to make it work.
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100%, I’m much more afraid of aggressive roos or feral animals than snakes or spiders.
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Minorities.
Skydiving
Yes, the first few times are intimidating. Hence why most students do their first few jumps tandem and then with a Jump Master after that.
After that though, you’ll be looking out the window of the plane and seeing just how much air there is to play in. As you gain experience, you will internalize the fact you’re safer in free fall, than you are on the airplane.
It’s not the free fall that I’m worried about. It’s what comes after.
Main deployment isn’t that bad. I have been whacked a time or two by my main parachute, but it was my fault for having bad body position at deployment time.
Needles.
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Totally normal reaction, I mean it isn’t normal to let someone else put metal inside your own body, I get that little sweat too sometimes when the needle goes in. But I wouldn’t say scary.
Spiders.
They’re such amazing creatures.
hunger.
I don’t mean starvation I mean there are people that cannot sit with a slight uncomfortable feeling of hunger. If you have eaten enough to fuel your body in a healthy way then being slightly hungry will not harm you.
I often operate with forgetting to eat.
Some people don’t understand how ’forgetting’ to eat happens. Getting so wrapped up into the subject you’re in that you can just put off whatever that hunger feeling is to a bit later. Although maybe I am just not that uncomfortable I guess. I’ll eat when my brain starts to feel hungry over the gut feel. But this comes with a caveat. You can have a crash and I do not recommend this.
Fire eating. It’s super dangerous so there’s a lot of safety protocol you must follow. But when it comes time to actually do it, most of the difficulty is psychological
(I’m an instructor)
Hang Gliding! It’s really chill. So many students are on edge when they’re about to do their first flight, but I always hear happy sounds as they fly off and they’re in a great mood when they finally land.
I wonder if their great mood is as much about the (successful) landing as much as it is about the glide?
That is definitely a factor, but we gopro everyone’s flights and nearly everyone giggling and smiling the whole time
Trees
The sun imploding in the next few billions years. I’ve had conversations about that that I could see in the person’s eyes that they were getting really scared about it.
The eventual annihilation of our species casts a shadow over everything we do. Because we’re ultimately working for something temporary, which will be followed by ultimate death and infinite silence.
Doesn’t it expand into a red giant and envelop the earth first? Make them even more uneasy with that!
