At the risk of selling my self short here, I describe myself as" not afraid to die",
when required by conversation. I can bolster that with relative knowledge that, I
have gone skydiving and jumped from a perfectly good airplane, the first chance
I got . Even paid extra to avoid the tandum trap.(as I call it)

Here's the thing k, I have never been and I will never be a surfer. I think back of
my younger years and shudder at how stupid I was, to have ever gone in the ocean.
I never knew how big sharks were until Jaws came out.
If you ask me Skarks are freakin monsters bra. The things we all feared as little people. To avoid monsters to me is a smart thing to do.

I will never leave the soil underfoot at present. Not by air nor by ship. Not afraid
of death, at the same time, not looking for a horribly fearful death either.
To go in the ocean where you have some visability (skindiving) I could do that with
out much fear at all. The visability factor has alot to do with it. Not being able to
see two ft. in to the water, with monsters swimming about?

Well to me that is just nutty or asking for it. I don't believe for one second we are
supposed toi be out there. This is proven as fact for me everytime someone
washes up on a beach somewhere missing a few body parts. Another thing is
just how emense and deep the ocean is. Do we know about everything that's out
there? NO! Not by a far a cry. It for me is a place that was meant only to haunt
your dreams, not your reality.
I will never get in a plane that is going over the ocean. I think people who choose to just arn't thinking straight.

There are a few people who would say this negative thinking.

There are those who call this a phobia.

I call it Good Horse sense.

I will respect all analyses.

MONSTERS?

[edit on 15-2-2010 by randyvs]

Definitely a phobia. Fear of the unknown.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the strength to accept the fear and overcome it. With practice, the fear becomes less and less.

edit: typo.

[edit on 15-2-2010 by avatar01]

I am afraid of holding my breath as long as possible again because i know ill just be disappointed by the time on my stop watch.

Sharks aren't monsters anymore than we are. In fact, they probably kill less consciously than many of us do fully conscious of doing so, they just clean up the sea a little more efficiently. Youtube centipede vs snake, that's pretty harsh stuff, on top of others.

but brotha, i too am afraid of the ocean. but there's a saying, do that which you fear most. .. and no pain, no gain.

[edit on 15-2-2010 by thaknobodi]

I just try to do what I feel like doing at the time and consequences usually take care of themselves. I would say though that if you avoid something because you do not want to get hurt is pretty d@#$ smart.