My grandmother disliked snakes. If she
ever saw them on TV, it was the same reaction of fear and
disagreement. I know people who hates worm and react those ways you
can never imagine: These are their bigger fears.
I have hear the
ostrich hides her face on the ground. I have seen cartoon doing
that, but I haven´t seen them in real life (I need to
watch a trustworthy video where they hide and run, by way).
The truth is they fight and defend themselves (When
threatened, ostriches run away, but
they can cause serious injury and death with kicks from their
powerful legs.
Their
legs can only kick forward.Contrary to popular belief, ostriches do
not bury
their heads in sand.
This
myth likely began with Pliny
the Elder (AD
23–79), who wrote that ostriches "imagine, when they have
thrust their head and neck into a bush, that the whole of their body
is concealed."
This
may have been a misunderstanding of their sticking their heads in the
sand to swallow sand and pebbles,
or,
as National
Geographic Society
suggests,
of the defensive behavior of lying low, so that they may appear from
a distance to have their head buried.).
(http://eol.org/data_objects/24070383#cite_note-Donegan_2002-12)
What
are you afraid of? (Don´t
tell me! You´re
being watched)
I
know what many people are afraid of. Horror movies are nothing
compared to those things people hide (or think could be hidden) while
research is being done on the net each person surfs while runs away
form their Phobias.
Recently
I went to hospitals where I saw a man who was afraid at seeing
transfusion needles. I knew I could feel dismayed at being present in
an operating theatre, looking at people´s bleeding, when their flesh
is being cut; but I´m new at those who forget where they received
the injection of a needle few hours before (or yesterday): This is
the same reaction “an ostrich” shows to hid their inmost fears...
Yes!
This is not a condition, but an emotional reaction, just like closing
the eyes when seeing a dangerous thing too close to our eyes: We shut
the mind! (to “feel” we´ve run from the danger).
At
risk or horrors, people cry or scream. Some show their tears, they
get red or use their fits. How knows all those fears?
There
was a nice thin young girl I knew she was terrified or angry. Her
skin changed like the chicken skin. I guess it was something like
those animals changed their color as well as their mood: They won´t
run, but it was a “warn”, their alert alarm (just like those
horses you see they moved their ears when they felt someone is
molesting and, if you don´t stop it, they can bite or hit you).
Not
too many people can make a “cone” using their tongue. That´s
something deep in the mind´s wirings that makes you to be like that,
to reach one way or another.
Who
knows you well? (God does) but I´m sure there are some fears no
research has been done: How vulnerable we are when we try to hide and
run from those truths we think we lie.
One
of my grannies used to call us when she felt she was about to die.
She did that too many times, that I thought she was “eternal”,
but she died at her 90´s. Sometime before, I spent some time with
her, reading the Bible at midnight, but I felt I missed her a lot,
because I was used to looking at her clear eyes and, that time, she
was in a bed, closed eyed, while I was unsure she would listen: There
wasn´t a real way I knew we interacted that time.
I´m
happy that, my other grandmother, held my hand when she was taken to
the hospital... She hated snakes, but she loved people as much as she
could give from her simple life.
