What’s a fear you’ve overcome — and how did you do it?
When I was 8 years old. I watched a movie called Wolfen about wolves eating people in the city of New York and South Bronx. It scared me to death because I thought wolves were going to jump through my bedroom window and eat me. Even though, I had prickly pear cactuses outside my window. I still had that fear because I had a very vivid imagination at that age. I would always sleep at the foot of my parents bed. I would wonder about the halls because I couldn’t sleep. Then, one night, I was wondering about the halls because I couldn’t sleep. I saw a ghost outside my parents window. The ghost was white, had an axe embedded in the hand and was chopping at the tree outside my parents window. So, I was already scared because of Wolfen, but now seeing a ghost was even more terrifying. I went in the backyard and I looked up at the tree and there were chop marks on the tree. The same tree outside my parents window. So I screamed and ran back inside the house. I guess knowing there was a ghost there got me so scared that after that day and night I just dealt with sleeping in my own bed, so I overcame it by just dealing with the fear I had. It took me three months to deal with the fear, but I didn’t want to see that ghost again. So, from that night on I slept in my own bed. I forced myself to sleep. I would say my prayers to God to keep me safe, so that helped also. Also, my stepdad reassured me that a wolf would not get in because of the prickly pear cactuses outside my window.













