I am a self proclaimed President of Indian Coward Association and I am not afraid to say this that I am a proud coward. Anyways insight into my cowardness will be provided some other time, as of now this incident I just recalled which happened quite some time back.
I am dead scared of spiders. In fact I am so scared of spiders that if I am given an option of facing a tarantula on one hand and jumping off a cliff, I would take the latter option.
So that day, rather that evening, around 6.30 pm I was getting ready to go out with a friend of mine to a party. Having dressed up I sat down in our bed room waiting for my friend to arrive. I have this annoying habit (annoying to myself !!!) of scanning the corners of the rooms at all levels for spiders or cobwebs. So as per my habit I was passing my time by scanning for cobwebs and spiders when I happened to locate something at a corner just above my sleeping place. Being curious I went forward to look what exactly it is.From a distance it looked like a thick curled up cobweb with a lot of dust in it. I was horrified to find that it was a spider. A pretty healthy spider at that. Curled up in its own fashion but looking ominous.
I decided to do something. So got hold of a slipper and was about to hurl it when my friend arrived. This is one thing I have never understood. Why do people arrive at the worst moments??? Specially when you least want or expect them to arrive. Anyways I didn't want to display my valor !!!! in front of my friend so decided to deal with the spider when I return. Also as I have studied that spiders are mostly nocturnal and usually move around in darkness. On that I felt the spider was pregnant !!! (what a close study I did) and I assumed that like human beings it won't move around much either.
Around 11 in the night I returned and went straight to change my clothes. I was very tired and decided to sleep. So I went to my bed and suddenly I remembered the spider. I looked at the spot I found it previously and to my horror it was not there.
Now that is a very bad news specially for a person with arachnophobia (fear of spiders). I started to search it frantically. A missing spider means it can be anywhere. And imagine I am sleeping and suddenly I wake up to find something crawling on my face. !!!!!!! Yuk!!!! It sent shivers down my spine... Armed with a slipper in one hand and a insecticide (Hit - Red one) in another I was frantically searching for it. It was 12:15 when I gave up my search and prepared myself for a long night. There was no way I could sleep on the bed. I mean just imagine a spider on my head ...... Ahhhhhhh I would be so very very dead. ..... probably a heart attack ....
I have read that sudden fear can lead to over secretion of adrenalin which can lead to cardiac arrest ..... Oh ..... I was too young to die .... and then dying because of a titsy-bitsy spider ????? I kicked myself for my fear of spiders but then what can I do ..... I have always been scared of them ......
That round shape with legs protruding from all sides and the strange way of walking ..... it is hard to say which way they are looking ..... isshhhhhhhhh it was the most dangerous thing on the earth .....
But I was tired and a long days work awaited me. So I went to sleep on a chair. ..... Somehow I managed to keep my thoughts at bay and my eyes closed ......
It was 6:30 in the morning when I woke up finally. As i stood up the bottle of Hit fell down as did the slipper. I looked at the same spot and found nothing ..... The spider was really gone for good ....
It took me three more nights of self hypnotism !!! to make myself to sleep on the bed.
I am dead scared of spiders. In fact I am so scared of spiders that if I am given an option of facing a tarantula on one hand and jumping off a cliff, I would take the latter option.
So that day, rather that evening, around 6.30 pm I was getting ready to go out with a friend of mine to a party. Having dressed up I sat down in our bed room waiting for my friend to arrive. I have this annoying habit (annoying to myself !!!) of scanning the corners of the rooms at all levels for spiders or cobwebs. So as per my habit I was passing my time by scanning for cobwebs and spiders when I happened to locate something at a corner just above my sleeping place. Being curious I went forward to look what exactly it is.From a distance it looked like a thick curled up cobweb with a lot of dust in it. I was horrified to find that it was a spider. A pretty healthy spider at that. Curled up in its own fashion but looking ominous.
I decided to do something. So got hold of a slipper and was about to hurl it when my friend arrived. This is one thing I have never understood. Why do people arrive at the worst moments??? Specially when you least want or expect them to arrive. Anyways I didn't want to display my valor !!!! in front of my friend so decided to deal with the spider when I return. Also as I have studied that spiders are mostly nocturnal and usually move around in darkness. On that I felt the spider was pregnant !!! (what a close study I did) and I assumed that like human beings it won't move around much either.
Around 11 in the night I returned and went straight to change my clothes. I was very tired and decided to sleep. So I went to my bed and suddenly I remembered the spider. I looked at the spot I found it previously and to my horror it was not there.
Now that is a very bad news specially for a person with arachnophobia (fear of spiders). I started to search it frantically. A missing spider means it can be anywhere. And imagine I am sleeping and suddenly I wake up to find something crawling on my face. !!!!!!! Yuk!!!! It sent shivers down my spine... Armed with a slipper in one hand and a insecticide (Hit - Red one) in another I was frantically searching for it. It was 12:15 when I gave up my search and prepared myself for a long night. There was no way I could sleep on the bed. I mean just imagine a spider on my head ...... Ahhhhhhh I would be so very very dead. ..... probably a heart attack ....
I have read that sudden fear can lead to over secretion of adrenalin which can lead to cardiac arrest ..... Oh ..... I was too young to die .... and then dying because of a titsy-bitsy spider ????? I kicked myself for my fear of spiders but then what can I do ..... I have always been scared of them ......
That round shape with legs protruding from all sides and the strange way of walking ..... it is hard to say which way they are looking ..... isshhhhhhhhh it was the most dangerous thing on the earth .....
But I was tired and a long days work awaited me. So I went to sleep on a chair. ..... Somehow I managed to keep my thoughts at bay and my eyes closed ......
It was 6:30 in the morning when I woke up finally. As i stood up the bottle of Hit fell down as did the slipper. I looked at the same spot and found nothing ..... The spider was really gone for good ....
It took me three more nights of self hypnotism !!! to make myself to sleep on the bed.
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