A couple of days ago Maryam (The Best Excuse) invited me to a blog game and asked me to write about the things I was afraid of as a kid.

Well, although, as kid, there might had been a lot of frightening things to me, but now that I look through them, only two of them seem to be different from what other kids might be afraid of. So here are my major fears as a kid:

1-I've been always afraid of water or better say to get drowned in the water! And it was worse when I was a kid. I remember I would never allow my face to be in the shower or I wouldn't be able to breathe! That was the reason why I could never learn swimming. So in the pool, I would just stay where the water is shallow. And when I went to sea, I would always be sitting or standing on the shoreline, where the waves could only touch my feet. I don’t know where this fear was originated from, but I know that I have had this fear since the very early years of my life. You may want to know that, the worst nightmares of my life were the ones I was drowning and, as a kid, my only prayer would be: "Lord, please never let me die in the water!"

2- Well, this one I'm going to tell you was a very high second fear of my life when I was a kid. As you know, daddy was killed in the war, so naturally I was afraid if mom got married!! I was afraid to have a step dad who would beat mommy up or take her away from me and my brother. So I would always hate my brother's idea about "mom bringing us a dad" and I would say: "we already have a father, understand!!" Well, fortunately this fear went away by mom's marriage to the best man on earth.

Now I invite Ali (my whispers), The Gray Man, Mehrgan, My cool fellow citizens, Sahar, Ali (jokes and...) to join and continue the game.

Narcis

May 6^th