When I get tired, I seem to get more honest and thus brings me to the topic for today. I have a new fear... a fear of sinkholes. Do you know what a sinkhole is? It is a hole that just opens up... a hole. in the ground. that just opens up and swallows you! Why the new fear? Well... we have a drainage ditch in our back yard. The kind that has a little path for the water to drain and opens up to a tunnel that goes across the street and picks up more water and goes somewhere. I am convinced myself it's a sinkhole in hiding. Wait. I know it's a drainage ditch in reality. It has concrete tunnels on either side for the water to go wherever water goes and yes, it is a drainage ditch. BUT I'm convinced I live on a sinkhole. I try to talk to myself and say, "Self, this house has been standing for 10 years. If it was on top of a sinkhole, surely it would have fallen in by now." BUT the thing is, sinkholes can open up at any time!
I like to take comfort in the fact that we have had an earthquake, a little one, but still an earthquake nonetheless and surely with the ground shaking underneath us, that would have awaken said sinkhole, right? I honestly don't know??I just can't believe we can just be sitting her and BAM! out of the blue the ground just opens up and literally swallows us up.
Now, if you know of any sinkhole stories, I ask you to keep them to yourself because my fear is real and I don't want to know. I now almost don't feel safe anywhere because this sinkhole thing can happen at any moment, anytime, anywhere!
Dustin made mention once about past lives. Soon after that, Oprah had a show about that very topic and I recorded it and watched it- I know, I'm a wild child. I think that there might be something there... I wonder if in a past life I was swallowed up by a sinkhole in my early 20's therefore explaining my fear of death at a young age and sinkholes?? It's just a thought. As a Christian I'm not suppose to believe in past lives and all that jazz, but I kinda do. I don't claim to know how God works and I certainly don't know the "bigger picture" to this life thing, so maybe God does let us live more than once, just because he can.
Well, there is my post for today... I know it isn't much but it's all I've got for today.
.jpg)
Posts
3 comments:
haha im glad you said not to put stories if we knew any because i do... but i'll keep them to myself.
i grew up in a very mine-filled area and was terrified of sinkholes. i dont blame you for being afraid of them!
I have a phobia of spiders. Even the itty-bitty ones and daddy longlegs. I freak out, like REALLY freak out. If I weren't so scared at the time, I would laugh at myself. I also have a fear of an asteroid that wipes out earth. Yep, I've seen "Armageddeon" one too many times...but I love that movie.
KP- Thank you for keeping them to yourself.
Becky- I'll kill the spiders if you keep my house standing, LOL
Post a Comment