u n a w a r e

Each week in my practice class two people run a group. The group can be on anything and they have varied from building towers, describing what is happening in various pictures or choosing your top five values. The group for this past week was called "fear in a hat." We were all given a slip of paper and had to write, "I am most afraid of _________." Then we were to put them in a bag and everyone would draw out one paper, that wasn't theirs, and explain why someone would be afraid of what they wrote down. 

We all drew out our papers and everyone began reading what their papers said. The first one stated, "I am most afraid of getting married and having it not work out." I wondered if I had taken the assignment too lightly but decided that not everyone would put something very personal in. Then we get to more slips of papers. Two of them said, "I am most afraid of failure." That's when I realized that I was unaware of the seriousness of the situation because they pulled my paper out and it read, "I am most afraid of opening my blinds and having someone looking back at me through the window." Every one laughed because they knew it was mine. Apparently I'm incapable of being serious when necessary.

That genuinely is a scary thing though, right? I would say more so than failure!