All Alone in Walmart

Hello you beautiful balloons! I would like to tell you a story. I know I didn't post on Valentines Day but I honestly don't care.

\_/ <- You see this?

That is my cup of cares. Notice that it is empty.

(Actually I was going to post about Forever Alone Day but I was too busy having fun!...Also because I was too lazy.)

Anyway I want to tell you about my first time as a child being left alone by myself in Walmart.

At the time I was six or seven and life was just beginning to show its' true, mean, and ugly face.
It was a time where everything I wore was pink and purple and my older sister and I actually shared clothes.

 That time was over.

My little toddler mind refused to accept the fact that the world was becoming a house of horrors.
So, there I was. Standing in Walmart ,even as a junior, reading books in the book section.
I didn't hear my mom say she would soon come and get me or that she just needed to go grab a jug of milk.
So I was standing there lost in a Junie B. Jones when a gruff voice interrupts my train of thought.

"Are you lost?"

Now the voice sounded very much like one a person would of someone who ate staples and swallows a big ole cup o nails to finish it off. Because we all know breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
The guy had raggedy clothes and a beard and he kind of smelled like pee.

So I was just standing there and looked around for my mom, because she was the one who answered the questions for me.

When I realized she wasn't around I did the thing any child who was lost would do.

I screamed like a fool.

Screaming was an understatement. More like howling like a banshee and siren crossed together.
And by that time I was thinking of all the horrible things that could happen: the strange man could yank me away from the two pigtails sticking from my head.

They were the kind of pigtails that were like helicopter blades, if they could spin fast enough I would've flown away!

Then I fell to the floor and cried. Right in front of the guy. He tried to help me up but I just kept flailing and falling on the floor.

Eventually he ran away from my strange demonic child screams and ran away before he thought I would open a portal or something.

I was all cried out and sniffles emitted from my little nose.
My mom came back and we checked out our groceries and to this day I see scraggly beard man whenever I go to Walmart.

-Hay

*Note
Small details in this story may have been exaggerated. :)

Fear

   Hey everyone!H here!!! Today I am telling you guys about something you THOUGHT you knew!That certain subject is...fear.Now many of you think you know all about fear. The basics it makes you scared,it is the last thing you would ever want,the number one thing in this world you use your every waking breath just to avoid. Intense? Some people are afraid of demons,snakes,spiders,death,(germs...). Today I will tell you something that will knock your socks off.
   Guess what? You are not born with fear. Fear is learned or thrust upon you. I know unbelievable!!!I didn't just come up with this revelation myself. Some guy (I am pretty sure you have never heard of) wrote this book called "all about the human mind" .  Yes it is written in all lower case like that. Anyway it is by Robert M. Goldenson, Ph.D. It clearly states:


" Fear is another emotion that can be both friend and enemy. If we let it get the better of us, it confuses our thinking and keeps us from acting sensibly. But if we realize that it is normal to be afraid at times,it may actually help by making us more alert and cautious. We wouldn't stay away from a mad dog unless we feared it.
   We learn to live with fear from our earliest years. Practically all infants are frightened by strange and unexpected sounds or sights, such as the noise of a siren or the antics of a clown.

   As children, we may acquire a number of fears from other people or from our own experiences . A young child comes to fear snakes because he has been warned against them. He may begin to be afraid of dark closets when he is locked in one. Large dogs may become frightening if one of them knocks him over. Lightning may scare him because it scares his parents. 
   We are not born with any of these fears. They are all learned.
   Some fears are also learned through CONDITIONING, In one psychology's most famous experiments, an eleven-month-old boy named Albert was shown a white rat. He had never shown any fear of animals and reached out to stroke it. At that moment a loud bell was rung in his ear. The next time he was shown the rat, he drew back in fear. The experiment was repeated several times. Soon Albert was "conditioned" to fear almost any furry object, including his mother's fur neckpiece and a old man's beard."


How very interesting...(Sorry about the italics!Something is wrong with my keyboard.)Well like in Jay's post about being geeky! I am always reading things like this!!!Well have some legitimate summer fun!Love H.


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