Hindsight REWIND

Reminisce and Reflect with me.  A quick READ.

Family drive in nineteen-ninety-something.  Families were enjoying watching the Lion King for the first time in theatres.  Our pride rock was being challenged by something quite different.  That unpredictable, irrational, seemingly incurable, highly contagious condition called arachnophobia!  Along came a spider and sat down beside her and we had yet another child afraid of bugs!

I know that they came by it honestly.  Mother dear has been frightened many times herself.  This spider was spotted in the back seat of my car on the way home and a certain little lady went crazy with fear.  She wouldn’t sit in that seat again for days.  It became known as the infamous spider seat.  All was fine again until the following week when another spider was spotted hanging from the roof of the car on the other side of the back seat!  You guessed it the fight for the middle seat went on for years!

Hindsight Reflection #1  Life isn’t always going to be a ride in the park.  There will be bumps in the road along the way.

Hindsight Reflection #2  Exposure therapy doesn’t always work.  Some childhood fears and phobias are hard to grow out of!

Hindsight Reflection #3  Facing fears as a kid is good practice for adulthood when you learn you will have to face many kinds of spiders in life all by yourself.  But  sometimes a big emotional outburst still feels like the best response!

Thank you for joining me.

Karen