This Saturday Options

[MissFits]

I have to go to my grammas house so she can tell everyone she's dying.

I'm really scared, and when things scare I tend to not face them. I know I have to go, but I'm the kind of person that will just dip out and by the time people notice I'm already home.

What do you do when you are scared to face something?

[superstitious]

I face it head on. I'll quote one of my favorite lines from Lost (as I feel it's an excellent piece of dialogue that relates to fear):


Well, fear's sort of an odd thing. When I was in residency, my first solo procedure was a spinal surgery on a 16-year-old kid. A girl. And at the end, after 13 hours, I was closing her up and I... I accidentally ripped her dural sack. Shredded it at the base of the spine where all the nerves come together. Membrane as thin as tissue, and... So it ripped open. Nerves just spilled out of her like angel hair pasta, spinal fluid flowing out of her and I... The terror was just so... crazy, so real... and I knew I had to deal with it. So I just made a choice. I'd let the fear in. Let it take over. Let it do its thing. But only for five seconds, that's all I was gonna give it. So I started to count. One, two, three, four, five. And it was gone. I went back to work, sewed her up and she was fine.



Give yourself a few minutes to let the fear take over, then kick fear in the ass.