day 12.... terrify yourself and others

Day 12... My task today was to "terify myself and others" The idea being that i pick a few from a long list of topics that should raise fear in both myself and those around me , then think about, and talk to others about said fears all day long.. giving us all something dreadfull to fret about.

The topics i chose to wangle into.. hmmm just about every conversation i had today were terrorism, serial killers, nuclear war, global warming and the ebola virus..

On the subject of ebola, you never fully apreciate how hard it will be to slip that topic into a conversation from leftfield until you have to do it... personally i lead into it with " flippin eck my stomach is in bits...i hope it;s not the ebola virus" I am pleased to report that i got at lest 3 mins discusion on how awfull the above mentioned virus is, what it does... and in what situations we could be at risk of catching it. Inflaming everyones sense of danger.

Nuclear war

O.K... nuclear war scares the shiz out of me allready.. FACT! , so not much work required here, but i put some in anyway.. looking at photos , reading documents on the after effects on any suvivors of a nuclear strike etc.. i even watched a horific cartoon i saw when i was a kid about nuclear fall out etc  called "gone with the wind" cartoons really shouldnt have that effect on a fairly scare proof grown man. I talked to my parents about nuclear war. I dont think they were scared, however mydread remains.. nay growns.

Terrorism

Terrorism as already stated was another of my chosen topics , anyone who knows me well enough, will atest to the fact that this wasnt much of a stretch for mike, terrorism wether seriously or in jest is something i regularly find myself discusing..but rather than focusing on what should happen to the perpatrators, or worrying a bin laden in training had messed with my food down my local asian restraunt , i just focused on the fear...the attacks themselves, and the sheer bowl looseningly scary prospect of it, then talked to mates  about it... as any good friend would.

                                                    Global warming

Global warming, shamefull as it may sound isnt something i let bother me too much , i guess  because its a political inconvenience partly  , also in part because i dont buy that theres anything i can really do about it, little me, big world, it kinda feels as pointless as panicing over a comet plumeting to earth.. yeah its scary.. but theres very little you can do to prevent  it. today i decided that would change.... by that i dont mean i did something about it.. i just mean as instructed i let it scare me..look at images of global warming on google, its scary stuff, also i tried to induce sadness in myself by looking at images of worried looking polar bears stood on ever shrinking plates of ice  . if your a polar bear  that really would be cack. i mean come on, they arnt built for long shifts of swimming. and i like polar bears.. so maybe ill worry about it a little more now.

Finally....... Serial killers

I am fascinated by them, maybe read about them in leisure time a little too often, but rather oddly dont generally find myself scared ,let alone terified when theyre on my mind, i had a think about why that was today.. the conclusion i reached is thus..the thing with serial killers is, you only have a name and a face to attach to one when they are caught, by which time they are either behind bars for the rest of their lives or dead...and you neednt fear anyone in either of those situations. But i talked to others about some of the most hanous crimes perpatrated by famous killers..i believe it had the desired effect.

At the end of the day having dicussed all picked out topics, i feel i have succeeded in scaring myself a little more, and infecting those around me with a little more fear.. mission accomplished.