Personal Narrative: The Silliest Fear

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The Silliest Fear There are people in the world who say they fear nothing but we all know that is a lie. Everyone fears something whether it be snakes, fish, or even a person. I, myself, have many fears, yet the fear I developed in October of 2011was by far the silliest for I feared my drivers test. Many factors caused my development of that fear for example; I only had two months to practice. This is because when I took my written exam to receive my driving permit I had to schedule the road test right then and there. When the man said “December Fifteenth”? I told him, “I’ll take it” not realizing it was mid-October. For others two months may seem like a long time, but the days passed like minutes and my driver’s test was coming up sooner than I had thought. I practiced four…show more content…
I did not want to believe that but since I knew nothing about the road test environment and was afraid to fail what was I supposed to believe? I did not think my friends would lie to me, but I dreamt I was going to have the same instructor they had for their test and fail. On top of everything I had been stressing about, my friends and family said a million and one things’ to remember, like to use my blinker when I turned, not to forget to put my seatbelt on, not to turn on the radio, to adjust my mirrors, and so much more. I feared forgetting something, and at the test I would make the wrong turn or stop too short or forget the three-point turn causing me to fail. However, the last factor that put me over the edge was when I watched Clueless for the first time. I watched this movie the day before my test. Coincidently, the main character of that movie took her driver’s test and failed. That threw me under the bus. I no longer had the ability to look at the bright side and possibly see myself passing that test. Thus, there is never just one thing that causes a fear. There are multiple factors that build the experience up to an extreme which cause people to think

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