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Jul. 22nd, 2004 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
podlingI actually had 2 posts all thought out and such, but that will have to wait. For now, ponder this... I am afraid of whales.
Not afraid as in I'd never go on a whale watch or to Sea World or anything, just kind of freaked out by their simply ginormous size.
Someone else's journal (I forget whose) said something about what animal they were afraid of, and they said none. And I thought, "am i?" And the immediate thought was, "WHALES!!!" (followed closely by "SHARKS!!!", but I digress) Then I was thinking, "Why whales?" I mean, it's extremely unlikely that death by whale is waiting for me. Whales aren't somewhere lying (floating) in wait for the moment I come by. Whales do not actually have it in for me. And from what I hear, whales aren't really fond of people as food. However... they're huge. Their hugeness is intimidating. They could smoosh me and not even notice. It's unlikely I'd be somewhere in the path of smooshness, but at the same time, they *could* without any kind of attention paid whatsoever. And so I examined the roots of this, and came up with two instances. One is having seen on tv (back when I had tv) an orca accidentally killing one of their human co-performers at some Sea World-ish place. The other, and probably the more freaky experience, was seeing the big blue whale at the Museum of Natural History. Gi-nor-mous.
Not afraid as in I'd never go on a whale watch or to Sea World or anything, just kind of freaked out by their simply ginormous size.
Someone else's journal (I forget whose) said something about what animal they were afraid of, and they said none. And I thought, "am i?" And the immediate thought was, "WHALES!!!" (followed closely by "SHARKS!!!", but I digress) Then I was thinking, "Why whales?" I mean, it's extremely unlikely that death by whale is waiting for me. Whales aren't somewhere lying (floating) in wait for the moment I come by. Whales do not actually have it in for me. And from what I hear, whales aren't really fond of people as food. However... they're huge. Their hugeness is intimidating. They could smoosh me and not even notice. It's unlikely I'd be somewhere in the path of smooshness, but at the same time, they *could* without any kind of attention paid whatsoever. And so I examined the roots of this, and came up with two instances. One is having seen on tv (back when I had tv) an orca accidentally killing one of their human co-performers at some Sea World-ish place. The other, and probably the more freaky experience, was seeing the big blue whale at the Museum of Natural History. Gi-nor-mous.
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Date: 2004-07-22 08:53 am (UTC)Especially given my lack of going out deep enough... ;)
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Date: 2004-07-22 08:56 am (UTC)