Oh me oh my so many fears out there, and some of the stranger ones are almost hard to believe until you hear people who suffer speak about them (Sarah Paulson example) and then still can be odd and beyond another persons understanding. I did laugh at fear of ducks and geese looking at you and then I remembered walking the tow paths in my town and damn if those geese aren’t scary AF when they eyeball you!! I don’t know about you triggering someone’s fear of holes or dots or imperfections, but at this point in our lives who isn’t scarred and ridged and marked? And if that is too “scary” for someone then they can go hang out with some smooth faced clowns or glassy eyed geese :)
Thank you for writing this! I am glad somebody could put it down as well as you. At 65 I've done just about all the stuff that anyone my age has supposed to have done but I find more and more that arriving in public is just sometimes fraught with nervousness, particularly on the road. I wrote a piece about clownishly large trucks and the men who need them, but this is not only comedy, hopefully it's at least that, but it's a true worry that I'm always going to get in trouble. WTF? Somebody is always calling you out. I've been in many countries and there's always someone giving you the business.
My most delicious moments are in anonymity in a foreign country where nobody can cross my path or make a comment or approach me.
Oddly the older I get the less I feel like a muscle-driven ego and more like an old book with hand watercolors that just needs to be taken out once in awhile and read, spoken to, and preserved. But the world doesn't care about my preservation. Sadly. Enough about me! What a narcissist I am! I want to say that I really love this piece! I love your writing!
I love your old book with watercolors metaphor. Luckily some do care about preservation but it definitely feels like not enough of us do. Sensitivity is strength! Thank you for reading and responding
Public speaking..."do it ccared" is the advice I parrot to myself and everyone else who is afraid. It sounds insensitive. How else do we get to t the other side? I truly feel for those who haven't taken those steps yet.
Ah public speaking is a huge one. For me too, but I have to do it often, which *sometimes* helps. It's hard to stop listing the fears once I started. But it's easier to just jump in and live.
Oh me oh my so many fears out there, and some of the stranger ones are almost hard to believe until you hear people who suffer speak about them (Sarah Paulson example) and then still can be odd and beyond another persons understanding. I did laugh at fear of ducks and geese looking at you and then I remembered walking the tow paths in my town and damn if those geese aren’t scary AF when they eyeball you!! I don’t know about you triggering someone’s fear of holes or dots or imperfections, but at this point in our lives who isn’t scarred and ridged and marked? And if that is too “scary” for someone then they can go hang out with some smooth faced clowns or glassy eyed geese :)
OMG the geese! They are totally looking at you. And thank you!
Thank you for writing this! I am glad somebody could put it down as well as you. At 65 I've done just about all the stuff that anyone my age has supposed to have done but I find more and more that arriving in public is just sometimes fraught with nervousness, particularly on the road. I wrote a piece about clownishly large trucks and the men who need them, but this is not only comedy, hopefully it's at least that, but it's a true worry that I'm always going to get in trouble. WTF? Somebody is always calling you out. I've been in many countries and there's always someone giving you the business.
My most delicious moments are in anonymity in a foreign country where nobody can cross my path or make a comment or approach me.
Oddly the older I get the less I feel like a muscle-driven ego and more like an old book with hand watercolors that just needs to be taken out once in awhile and read, spoken to, and preserved. But the world doesn't care about my preservation. Sadly. Enough about me! What a narcissist I am! I want to say that I really love this piece! I love your writing!
I love your old book with watercolors metaphor. Luckily some do care about preservation but it definitely feels like not enough of us do. Sensitivity is strength! Thank you for reading and responding
Public speaking..."do it ccared" is the advice I parrot to myself and everyone else who is afraid. It sounds insensitive. How else do we get to t the other side? I truly feel for those who haven't taken those steps yet.
Ah public speaking is a huge one. For me too, but I have to do it often, which *sometimes* helps. It's hard to stop listing the fears once I started. But it's easier to just jump in and live.