Selachophobia
I have Selachophobia.
I am scared snottless of sharks.
I am working very hard to get over this...I have done hours of research, watched countless documentaries, and even visited small sharks at Big Al’s Tropical Aquarium store (oh sorry Blu, I meant Big Gal’s). Even the hammerhead shark/man/undead guy in the new Pirates movie freaked me out. I believe the more I know about sharks, the less I will fear them. As a result I know so much about these razor sharp toothed, blank staring solitary killing machines that I could write a book. Still this phobia persists. How irrational…I mean I live in a land locked province for bloody sakes, there are no sharks within a very large number of kilometres from here and since there is no such thing as a “Land Shark” I really just needed to get over it.
But I am not alone…..oh no my freinds….there are some famous selachophabians out there: Christina Ricci thinks sharks will find their way into her pool. Charlie Sheen bought a beach front house thinking he could get over his fear of sharks but it did not work and he moved inland.
Well, it is “Shark Week” on the Discovery Channel running July 30-August 4. Look It Up…if you can….I dare you: http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/sharkweek.html
Kimdianna Jones....
posted by Tymkehl @ 2:48 p.m.
1 Comments:
I sympathize. I don't fear sharks but I still sympathize. I have ancraophobia. It's a fear of wind. And I live in Wellington. You know how they call Chicago the Windy City? Let me tell you that Chicago has nothing on Wellington. They routinely get wind here that tops 70+ kms per hour. That's normal. They like telling the stories of the time the wind capsized the ferry or the time the wind was so gusty it actually blew people into storefronts or the time...
*shudders in mortal dread*
Living with wind does not lessen the fear. It just gives you that many more opportunities to examine it up close and personal, from a very screamingly panicky point of view.
I sympathize. Landlocked or not, shark fear is real. Just like ancraophobia.
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