What is your biggest fear? Have you tried to overcome it?

This was a really difficult question to answer actually. I have many smaller fears, things that scare me on a smaller scale, but not a ‘big’ fear of anything in particular. In writing this actually, It made me question what ‘fear’ actually is, and whether the things I’d say I fear, are things I actually just worry about.

I have a fear of spiders. I think thats a real common fear though. It’s just their legs, and the way they creep around under my bed. EWW!. It’s something I just have to leave with though, and I’ll pick them up in a glass and throw them out the window as I don’t have any other choice!

I fear heights. That’s a definite fear. How did I overcome it? Hmm. I put myself in situations where I had no other choice but to face it. I sometimes take the glass lift from the top floor of the shopping center all the way down to the ground floor, and make myself look out over the ground below me. I hate it but for me it’s the best way to deal with it.

I fear loosing the ones I love (through an accident that should have been, or could have been prevented), but I think that that’s a really common fear.

Writing the above was a really difficult one for me, I don’t think I’m a person who hugely has ‘fears’. Not great fears that dominate my life. People expect me to say that my biggest fear is never recovering (from my M.E), but for me, that’s not a fear, that’s a part of life that at the moment (due to there being no cure) I have on control over.