Things I Am Afraid Of

SO MANY THINGS!

I'm Jake Keating. I'm a pretty fearful guy. I get unreasonably afraid of a lot of things and I've decided that it is time to face these fears. This blog will hopefully allow me to reason through my fears and conquer them.

These fears run a pretty wide gauntlet. Some are ridiculous, like mice falling into my mouth while I sleep. Some are pretty improbable, like the coming Zombie Apocalypse. Others are pretty mundane, like girls and failure (those two often overlap.) And some are just down right terrifying, like waking up in a pool of blood with a dog's head in my hand and someone screaming from the other side of the door in a bathroom I've never been in before.

I will also discuss some of the things I should be afraid of but, for whatever dumb reason, am not.

Lastly, I firmly believe that some of my fears are completely justifiable. Mice like to sleep in warm places, and I sleep with my mouth open. Why wouldn't it want to sleep in my mouth? This particular situation will be discussed at length in the post entitled 'Mice Falling In My Mouth While I Sleep,' I am just using it as an example of the preparations I sometimes take in order to avoid having to be afraid. (In this case, I sleep with my face in my pillow like a reverse smothering.) These preparations will also be discussed in this blogs.

By writing about my fears, I hope to show myself how ridiculous and unfounded they truly are. I do, however, fear that this blog will just reinforce the fears instead. But hey, a guy's gots to try, right?