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Short Speech On Fear

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It all began at 3:27am, October 12, 2011. My eyes shot open and they darted around in the pitch black room! A bunch of things rushed through my head, but there was only one thing that had to be DONE! (Say dramatically) I HAD TO GO TO THE BATHROOM! Yes, sure, I could have just gotten up and go, but what would have happened if the creature under my bed grabbed my ankles or that shadow with that glowing light in the hall jumped out like slender man. Is going to the bathroom worth leaving my cozy fluffy bed and more importantly my life? As I thought to myself I was getting more and more impatient so I ripped the blanket off my body and sprinted faster than Usain Bolt to the bathroom, turned the lights on and did my business, still using my peripheral vison to keep an eye out on what could come. Have you ever been walking up the stairs with all the lights off and you feel like someone is creeping behind you? Or when you're home alone and you feel like someone is behind your couch breathing on your neck? Well that my fellow students, teachers and judges is called CONSTERNATION, TREPIDATION, DISCOMPOSURE or fear.
Now I know everyone has faced fear before, whether or not it was by your friend jump scaring you or by breaking mom and dad's wedding china!?! Why do I get afraid?...... You see, fear is caused by danger or a threat that appears in the …show more content…

What if I mess up and everyone starts to laugh at me? I'm up now. Great everyone's staring at me! There just waiting for me to mess up. I hope I'm doing alright. Remember in that movie where the boy messed up and got bullied for it? Uhhh I am super scared. And then I finished and was glad that it was done. There are three stages of fear. Haha stages of fright. Haha stage fright. It's still funny... Ok so

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