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The Big Bear

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      The Big bear

                                                   by: Evan

 

I fear Bears because I feel more vulnerable than in a car or a house.So i don’t feel as safe in  tent as in a house. One weekend I went camping with my family, and it was somewhere in West Virginia where there was a caution of Bears. that meant there was bears that lived around the area so lookout and be careful my family and I went fishing hiking and other fun stuff by the fire.The fish we caught we ate for dinner after dinner we went bye the lake that was close to the campsite and just relaxed then around 8:30 or around 9:00 we headed back to make s’mores my mouth watered like a waterfall.

Then after that we went in our tents and set up are camping gear it took years for me to finish because I only had a flashlight and also i just did not feel like sending up everything in the day which was a mistake. But got it done also I remember we had food in the car, but my Dad said it would attract bears but I did not listen so I went in my tent and ate cookies candy and other things and there was crumbs everywhere and i put the rappers outside the tent. which was not smart.So after that I went to bed and i was half awake and half asleep when I heard.

A loud GRUNT and something SNIFFING it sounded like a loud wind whistling I was scared I could not even move so I slowly walk to the tents back door. And unzipped it slowly and ran out to try to go to my parents tent but I got scared and ran into the car and locked all the doors and slept in the car but I never slept. And in the morning my dad ask me what happened and “I said I brought food in the tent and a bear came and ate it”. “And my dad said the tent in also destroyed to your in big trouble”.

So me and my family had to leave to camping my mom and dad were mad they “said what are you thinking and you have to buy a new tent and you didn’t listen to your father. So I Learned that to never have food in your tent and don’t put the rappers outside it outside. Also I fear bears Because they’re big scary. and I hear stories about them attacking people so I am also scared of them attacking me. But I will try to get over my fear because I know that if you don’t bother them them they won’t bother you.  That’s the first step

Also don’t think about the negative thing about bears think of something good about bears.

Finn

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By:Max

It was a sunny day in Virginia beach. Finn and his family were down by the beach enjoying the warm sand and the cool ocean. Then, suddenly, Finn thought he saw a fin. He went berserk. “SHAAAAAAAAARK!” he screamed at the top of his lungs. He tried to move every one out of the water. The fin was coming closer, and closer, and closer. It was twenty feet from the shore when his 5 year old sister said, “That’s a shark floaty”. Finn felt his face get hot, “false alarm everybody” he said with a meek laugh. He heard giggling from a group of girls walking by. He back to his house. Alone. He figured that he may of overreacted a little, but it wasn’t his fault. When he was 5, he loved the ocean. He went out there everyday. Then one day, when he was out on the beach with his dad, his dad froze. He was looking at what Finn thought was him, but actually at the shark right behind him.

 

He panicked and stopped for a moment. Then he realized that he needed to swim as fast as he could. He was almost out of the water when, “CHOMP”, he looked back and saw red in the water. He lost his big toe. From then on, he had been extremely afraid of a shark coming onto the beach.

 

When Finn got home he had a snack and then fell asleep watching tv. He awoke to his parents coming home at midday for lunch. They told Finn to make himself some lunch and invited him to come back down to the beach with them. He agreed to because he was bored and there was nothing good to watch. So on the walk back to the beach, they talked about overcoming his fear of sharks coming onto the beach. “but fear is natural and it keeps you safe” he argued. “well too much fear is also bad, you need to have confidence in yourself” his mom told him. “when we get to the beach, I am going to go out into the open water and show you that it is completely safe.” his father said.

 

They got back to the beach and set up their shelter and all of them walked down to the water. Finn’s family kept walking into the water but Finn stopped. “I’m going to stay here, the water is kinda cold.” he said to excuse himself from getting into the water. “Okay, but you watch and see that it’s safe.” his dad told him. He watched as his dad swam away from the shore. “Ten feet, twenty feet, thir- hey wait is that a shark fin?” he yelled to his dad. His dad responded “no it’s just a porpoise, like I told you, this water is completely safe”. He was out about 100 feet around where Finn had seen the porpoises. “see look, I’m fine!” he yelled to Finn as a wave went by. “Where” Finn yelled back. There was no response. Then there was a crash as a legion of jets came by, shattering the windows of nearby buildings. Then they flew away to the aircraft carrier in the distance.

 

The shark was gobbling down everything in it’s path, “Gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble!” then there was a deafening roar as the jets came back and  started shooting at the shark. The shark just ate them and expelled them with extreme force at the jets. “The jets are getting hit!” Finn screamed. His mom heard “I wanna throw a fit” and replied “why, that won’t do anything”. Finn heard “Fly, cat front to my ring”. Then suddenly there was a hiss as a missile was released. Then there was a boom louder than anything Finn had ever heard. when the smoke cleared, they saw that it was raining shark guts. Then the shark guts turned gray, then they grew fins, and mouths.
The shark had multiplied then the jets started shooting them. “why are they doing that? they’ll just shoot them back.” But then Finn realized that there weren’t bullets going up, but the babies were vaporizing. The Jets flew away when the sharks were gone. “phew” Finn felt relieved. Finn’s family left the beach happy that nobody got hurt. They continued going to that beach and never had another problem about sharks. Finn didn’t quite get rid of his fear of sharks, but after the run-in with the mutant shark, he was much happier to go into the ocean because he knew that if he was in trouble, help would come.

Solving my Problems

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I know I’m scared of 3 things and each probably has a memory it stemmed off of.The first is being stranded in an unfamiliar place. The second is being someone else. The third is being alone. I’m hoping to find where these fears came from in this essay.

The first fear is always at the back of my mind. What would I if all the people I knew disappeared or worse, never existed? What if one day I woke up in a house that I’ve never seen before and realized later on that I was the only person on Earth? If anything I’d go insane after a couple of days. I think this fear would probably come from me having siblings that I care about. All my life I’ve never been completely alone for more than a hour. It would feel like I was at the bottom of the ocean. I would be a hermit at the bottom of the ocean. That would be awful.

The second fear is something I ponder at times. I’m happy with my life and body. I would never replace the life I have if I ever had the choice. I wouldn’t even trade my life for a celebrities or billionaires life. I could never give up my family or friends. I could also never give up all the things I learned throughout my life. I could also never give up the bad things that happens in life. Those make me a better and stronger person.

The third fear is more passive because I only really feel it after awhile of being alone. I always thought that if I went to college, I would either be in a dorm with a roommate or living with my mom. This probably stems off of growing up with brothers and a dog. Most of the time I don’t mind it but after awhile of thinking it gets to me.

I’m glad I wrote this because after lots of heavy thinking I found out I care about my family and friends and that I’m happy with who I am. Fears can help you find yourself. Now I feel like a stronger person.

Loops of Fear

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By: Hayden

 

The summer of 2014 me and some friends went to Busch Gardens, I was about 12 years old and only went on a couple roller coasters. But my friends have been telling me that Busch Gardens have the scariest roller coasters ever. I had just got into the car and I was really scared.

“Have you ever rode the Griffin I heard some fell of and plummeted 100 feet down to the ground”, said Kyle.

As soon as he said that I got really scared and didn’t know what to do. I was a scared like it was the end of the world.

“He is just joking”, said Jack. I was relieved that Jack said that.

We pulled up into the parking lot and saw the crowds of cars and I could even see how big the roller coasters were.

“ We should go to the smaller roller coasters first then hit the bigger ones later”, said Jack. I was so relieved after he said that now I have some time. We got into groups. I was paired up with my best friend Kyle and we went to the Lochness Monster the oldest roller coaster there. As we got in line my heart was beating really hard it felt like I ran a couple miles. Me and Kyle were now up to the front row and I  became really scared. As we went into our seats, I sat down and buckled up. As the rollercoaster started to move I saw all of the loops and spins and  I felt like I was going to throw up so I decided to just close my eyes and wait until the roller coaster was over. But as we got towards the end of the roller coaster it seemed like it was really fun. I decided to open my eyes and as I took a little sneak peek, it looked really awesome. As we got of the roller coaster I was really happy like I won the lottery.

“That wasnt that bad was it”, said Kyle. I told him yes it wasn’t and I was really happy because that was one of my first roller coasters. We rode it a couple more times. Then we met up with the rest of the group to have lunch at the buffet. I walked into the line and I saw all the luxurious foods and just picked up everything I could. As soon as I sat down I dove right in shoving food down my mouth. We finished all of our food and we decided to go to the scariest roller coaster there and it was called the Griffin. I was kind of scared but I knew 100 percent that I could do this.  We made our way into the line but we saw that there were a ton of people wanting to ride this amazing roller coaster. It took awhile but we made our way up into the front of the line. We got into our seats and I was really scared but I knew i could do it.

“You’re going to be fine it’s just like the Lochness Monster”, said Kyle. I went into my seat and buckled up and was ready for the roller coaster. The roller coaster started to move and I closed my eyes. All of the sudden I found out that we were going up and I opened my eyes and saw that we were inclined. Once we got  all the way to the top we stopped for about 10 seconds and the roller coaster took off. The roller coaster was as fast as a jet and it was really scary. But all the sudden I was having so much fun and when they stopped the roller coaster I knew I wanted to ride every roller coaster in this amusement park.

“That wasnt that bad, I said to my friend Kyle. Then me and Kyle went to as many roller coasters as we could before we would have to meet up with our full group. The next roller coaster we went on was called the Alpengeist and I was a little worried about this one. Since I rode a lot of the roller coaster I knew I shouldn’t be afraid of this one.  We buckled as normal and the roller coaster started moving as we started moving Kyle said that this one was probably the scariest one here. That messed up my confidence a little and my heart started to beat rapidly again. There was a lot of loops and turns and I felt like I was going to throw up. I was really happy I did not. The rest of that trip was amazing, I had tons of fun with my friends and I rode a bunch of roller coasters and got over my fear. We went back to the hotel to go to sleep after a long day of fun.

“Are we going to go back to the amusement park”, I asked in excitement.

“Yes of course we are”, Kyle had said back to me. As I was falling asleep I thought about how much fun I had overcoming my fear and how it took a lot of courage. I woke up early in the morning ready to have some more fun. I rushed to wake everybody up so we could get there early. We got in the car and made our way to the amusement park. When we went into the parking lot I saw no cars and I was really happy that we could ride a lot of more roller coasters. But there was still one roller coaster that I haven’t went on yet. We made our way to the to the roller coasters and rode a them for a while. In this trip I overcame my fear and it took a lot courage to do that.

The Major Fear

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Dying will always be a big fear of mine and will stick with me until that day. Dying has always been a question or a thought that goes through the back and front of my mind. I always wanted to know what that day would be like but i know now that i would have to find out.

 

I have always been afraid of dying because everyone in my life or anyone close to me has always died unexpectedly or they were here just too sick to to keep going with their sick life. Dying has a major impact in everyone’s life but it scares me knowing that everyone and even me has to die someday and that we would never know when or how. Most of my family is still with me on earth and most of them has already dies in so many ways and some are worse than the other. I always had a fear that i would die an unhappy life or not living up to my standards and completing all of my goal.I always question to myself and imaged the possibilities of how i would die but with the was i had imagined it was like me being murdered or something tragic.

 

I am afraid of dying because i am afraid of doing everything i wanted and not being the person i wanted or the person everyone would remember me as. When i die i want to die living up to all of my standards and completing all of my goals and becoming the person i want to be. I have feared many times that when i die i wouldn’t be remembered the person i want to be remembered as.

 

Dying is one of my major fears and i know that one day we are all going to to die and that it is only natural and human nature. I have learned to accept that someday, but still it will be one of my major fear and will always cross my mind. Having this fear has made me wonder what my life would be like if i had completely overcome that fear and have the courage to live up to my fate. Dying is one of my biggest fears and hearing how people die and hearing about so many people died made me wonder what will happen to me or when will i die or how would i die.

The Future

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The Future,

I wonder what it would be like.

I wonder what I’d be like.

Maybe flying cars and

Robots with emotions

and a job,

a job in which

I get money

to pay

the

Money collectors,

to get back my house,

the house my family owned

for many generations,

the house they took

to pay off

MY dept.

The dept that I

got myself into

by borrowing money from

them.

The collectors that

beat me and my family to a bloody pulp

every month

if they didn’t get what they

need,

or should I say what they want

The need that I

PLEAD

for mercy

hoping to go back to the

Past

The Future,

I wonder what it would be like,

I wonder what I’d be like

By: Ayda

My greatest fear

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a towering feature

so large and steep

a figure towering down with incredible speed

 

children of all ages screaming

a sharp screech exiting their mouths

other surround sounds of children for miles long fill my ears

 

sweat dripping down my face into my mouth

nerves getting from my head to my toes

not a bit of courage

 

anxiety taking over

I have fear of the unknown

my feet moving forward

finally a bitter stop in the carriage

 

nervous as a jitterbug

I see a towering feature

children of all ages screaming

as I climb I gain courage

 

suddenly a stop at a peak

and zoom crash bang hurdling down

it is over I have done it I feel unstoppable

I am a lion

Some Experience

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souls of helpless people

scrambling to survive

like an ant scrambling from a psychotic fly

some do not make it

the lightning strikes

big and scary

 

The gust of air

scratching my face

I taste the dust

so bitter yet sweet

last glimpse of sunlight

my heart begins to beat

 

lost spirits

now float about

hesitant hands hopeless

on grabbing

anything

to save

this poor man

 

The smell of nothing

it seems

my nose so numb

blood rushing now to the tip of my tongue

But somehow my mind

not rotten but broken

 

the clinking of string

Maybe a pure being

Alas, a parachute

Saved so sweet

to save I must

jump out:

swift feet

 

I see the plane

SPLASH!

Sinking in the belly of the beast

The worst way

of death it seems

but now i see

there is not another

pure being here

but me