Freddie Flintoff Essay

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Sara Azmoudeh
5 March 2015
English 1a

Freddie Flintoff, and I both

The concept of fear is one which is hard to grasp. Fear is a emotion, and parallel to other emotions, fear is non physical. However, the perplex aspect of fear is although it is non physical it is triggered by mental and physical things. Other emotions such as love,happiness, sadness and anger are usually triggered by other people and are taken away by other people. Fear on the other hand begins with us and ends with us. Through out my life I believed I had many fears, I thought
I was scared of bees and spiders and most insects for that matter. However, when you come eye to eye with something that truly frightens you are left with the understanding that although you
My mind state is altered, and I feel as if I am in the body of someone whom is being held hostage and is running away. Regardless of the temperature I begin to sweat, I feel moisture all along my body and the only release is once I reach the top of the staircase. My legs move as fast as an olympic runners as I bolt up the stairs, with my heart rate in accordance with my feet. Breathing is not on the agenda, and it is as if I can feel someone touching me with every move I make. My stair case is carpet while the upstairs floor is tile, and it is as if my feet have reached an understanding that the carpet is some sort of hot lava that I must sprint past. While the tile is a ice cold release from that lava. With panic, angst and suffering running through me, I finally reach that cool release, that tile that sets me free and brings me back to my own self.
This twenty seconds of distress is horrible, nevertheless I have not always been like this.
Growing up I did always have a little fear of the unseen and unknown which is what I identify with the dark. However, a certain experience is what triggered this terror for me. It
I was having nightmares and sleepwalking, I really struggled,” he says, when we meet in a slick room at his agents M&C Saatchi. “I’m conquering it slowly. But it 's really strange. I froze a couple of times through the dark. I can’t move.” ( telegraph.co )
Flintoff and I may have differing reasons behind why the dark puts us in a state of absolute fright, regardless we both can identify with the idea that the dark is a negative concept that implicates a sense of horror inside our bodies. Flintoff is a big man who looks like nothing scares him, however the dark is something non physical as well. Nothing explainable scares him, it is the unseen and the unexplainable that does.

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In conclusion, the dark might be just the dark to some as for me drowning or being eaten by sharks in the ocean does not cross my mind. Fears are subjective and that is apart of why they are lethal. And although I have a fear, I ultimately still consider myself strong. I will not evade from the fact that I am a victim to a nonphysical emotion that is in essence controlling parts of my life. The dark has always been a concept that scarred me. This scare is something