Self Induced Fear; My Weird Personal Story.

You know those horror movies when a creepy joke amongst a group of friends begins to slowly play out before their eyes and there's that eureka moment...

I was at the mall with a friend when I offered that we use the escalator instead of the stairs as I love everything that takes away the stress. Lol.

Immediately she gave her consent, I remembered I was scared of escalators. Wait what? No I can't take the escalator no more. I had to explain why.

It's funny because I never get scared of things. In fact I wasn't scared of escalators till I brought it up as a joke when I went to a different mall (the largest in West Africa! Yes I had to add that 😀) with the gang.

It was meant to be something we'd laugh about and go on with the day but then as I stared at the escalator, my head began to make up skits of my leg getting stuck in it.

It was like a scene out of 1000 Ways To Die.

All of a sudden, the fear became real and I couldn't use the escalator. It was scary. I was trying to explain to myself that it's something I've been doing all along and the joke was, well, just a joke.

I tried to talk myself out of chickening out but I failed, woefully!

That day, I had to use the stairs. I didn't succeed in fighting my self inflicted fear.

Fast forward several months after and I had totally forgotten about this incidence till I was face to face with yet another escalator. This time I was with a girl and not my boys. We were on a date and not just outchyea chillin'.

I told her about it, everything! There's no point hiding shit like that. It was what it was and I couldn't do anything about it. Well, that's what I thought.

"Are you serious?" Was her reaction as she started to laugh like someone who had just seen an alien jet land right before her.

All through this, we didn't stop walking. So we were already at the escalator when she started her laughter and without overthinking anything, I walked right on it and she did the same.

I'll admit my getting on it wasn't smooth but I didn't fall off 😂.

All through the ride down, I was trying my best to explain her laughter away but she wouldn't have any of my excuses. Before long, we were at our destination and I had just beat my fear!!!

I faced my fear and beat it!!!

Now that i'm thinking about it, I should have gone on it a few more times just to prove to my head that it's fine getting on an escalator.

Do you have similar experiences of self induced fear? Please share.

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