Comments | digdigil: MY LIFE HISTORY IN SMALL BITES: PART ONE

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MY LIFE HISTORY IN SMALL BITES: PART ONE

Jan 25, 2009 10:26

MY LIFE IN SMALL BITES
(EASIER TO DIGEST)

lol. I've been wanting to do this for a long time.

( THE FIRST SMALL BITE IS UNDER THE CUT )

real life

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aglaiya January 25 2009, 15:57:26 UTC

That was very interesting to read.
Little girl wandering the streets of a big town wants to rescue people...
They Maxie storie is sad, but adverturers have to live with the risk. (stupid phrase but true)
I can understand your fear of popping ballons very good.

just_jenni January 25 2009, 16:20:22 UTC

Yeah, even thinking about balloons I get cold shivers.
The little girl going out on her own to help people is sort of my central theme in my life story and probably the reason I ended up working in the medical profession.
Poor Maxie. When JFK Jr. died in that plane crash I understood that he took risks because that's the type of person he was. And Maxie was the same. But the horror of dying in an accident like that has always stayed with me and I believe it contributed to my irrational fear of balloons.

aglaiya January 25 2009, 19:04:15 UTC

To help people is a great mission! And sometimes there are 'little' incidences show us the way we take.

We all have our irrational fears.

just_jenni January 25 2009, 23:22:20 UTC

Awww...those are lovely words and thank you for them.

It's true. We all have our fears. But it's funny how most of them are from our childhoods.

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quabazaa January 25 2009, 16:10:12 UTC

Wow I love how you are writing this around a central theme! I can't blow up balloons either!

just_jenni January 25 2009, 16:21:22 UTC

Balloons (like clowns) are very scary for some people!

aranel_took January 25 2009, 16:13:37 UTC

just_jenni January 25 2009, 16:23:45 UTC

Isn't it funny how childhood experiences can affect us so much more profoundly than things that happen to us as adults. Or at least they seem to stick in our memories so much more vividly. Your story about Bigfoot is exactly like what happened to me with the balloons.

fanged_geranium January 25 2009, 17:56:47 UTC

Sounds like you were one very brave three-year-old! When I was three, or thereabouts, I was terrified of the TV - particularly sesame street and the Big Bird!

There haven't been so many people trying to do daft things in a hot air balloon lately, I think, but perhaps that's because it's all been done before, and those free-thinking explorer-types have moved on to some new, even more dangerous method of transport.

just_jenni January 25 2009, 23:20:08 UTC

Oh my, I think we all have terrifying images from when we were three that have stayed with us! Big Bird? I can understand that! I always thought he was too huge to be kid-friendly!

I know at least that I would never, ever do anything as daft as go up in the air in a flimsy vehicle like a hot air balloon!

dawn_felagund January 29 2010, 18:21:36 UTC

Jenni, we haven't talked in ages, and I missed you and wanted to see how you were doing! :)

As a kid, I loathed that birthday party game where the objective is to see who can pop the most balloons by sitting on them. Not only did it snap one's backside uncomfortably, but I always thought that if I were a balloon, I would not want to be popped! Probably sounds silly, but I have a problem to this day with personifying objects and getting really attached. (I also disliked the carnival game where you throw darts at balloons. *shudderrrr*)

So no balloon phobia here, but I totally empathize with you!