My Greatest Fear

For our 2nd STELLAR story book, we read about Fearless Phil and how he feared nothing in the world except for a .. mouse! The children shared their fears in their journals too. Some fears are rather personal and I will not share them here. However, there are some interesting entries from children who were willing to share on.. "My Greatest Fear"

*I obtained permission from the selected pupils to publish their works! (so no copyrights issues~)

Thanks for sharing, children! I pray that you will overcome your fears in time by trusting that the Lord will always be there for you.

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My greatest fear are ghosts! Sometimes, when I sleep alone with the lights switched off, I feel like I am in a dark and haunted house! When I feel a little bit scared, I just stay very still, and after a while, I fall asleep. Sometimes, I see millions of eyes staring at me! When I see them, I shake my head. And after a while it disappears. Other times, while trying to sleep, I see imaginary skeletons invading earth!

Other than ghosts, I am also afraid of cockroaches, especially the flying ones! They’re so gross and smelly! I wish that everyone on the earth will make an effort to get rid of them! The cockroaches that I have at home are huge! One of them was 6 inches long and 3 inches wide!

Other than ghosts and cockroaches, I am equally scared of roller coasters! Roller coaster rides are terrific but is a heart in mouth experience! When the roller coaster moves to the steepest point and bullets downwards, I scream my lungs out!!!

I want to overcome my fears by having faith in God!

- Daniel

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My greatest fear are insects, especially butterflies. Although they are beautiful, they fly around me and that is what I don’t like and fear of. Recently, my family and I went to the Singapore Zoo. My uncle brought all of us to the Fragile Forest. As I was too scared to go in, my father had to bring me to see other animals while waiting for my family to come out. I am okay with small butterflies but not okay with big butterflies. I don’t really like to go to the eco garden too. As I sad there are many butterflies and I don’t like them.

- Nicole

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My Greatest Fear is eating creepy crawlies, darknesses, getting killed, being bitten by a snake and dying. I’ve seen people on television eating creepy crawlies. I think it is very YUCKY, but they think it’s very nice! Yuck! When it is dark, I’m afraid a face will just pop up at me or a robber will just jump out at me! Brrrr! I am afraid when I am lost, a person will kidnap me and kill me. So scared :( Being bitten by a snake will be very painful. Ouch! It hurts me whenever I think about it. Dying is not fun. When you die people will have like a funeral or something. I hate funerals because when I look at something I’m afraid that the person will suddenly come alive. That will give me such a shock! I got nothing else to say so I guess THIS will be the end.

- Samuel

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"Ahhhhh…! It’s a cockroach!" I screamed. Whenever I see a cockroach, I will run away as fast as lightning because it is very scary.

Most cockroaches are brown but some are black. They are small but some are big. It is an insect because it has six legs and three parts. It crawls but it moves very fast. No matter how neat and clean my house is, there are still cockroaches. Cockroaches like to hide in dark places, like cabinet, dustbin or they may even crawl from my neighbour’s house. My maid helps to get rid of the insect by spraying insecticide. Last week, my maid caught many cockroaches and put them in a bag. They looked disgusting and I felt like vomiting. From that day onwards, I felt even more fearful of cockroaches.

That is my greatest fear!

- Etienne

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My greatest fear is pain, murdered and ghosts. Pain is caused by injures and sometimes the injuries give you a scar. Pain hurts you. I totally do not like being murdered. Being murdered means killed by someone. I’ve never been murdered, so I do not know how it feels like. People that are murdered will turn to ghost and aunt for the person who murdered them. Ghosts are spirit of dead people. They are very scary. I am scared of ghosts too. Some people believe in ghosts and some don’t. Well, I object both. I’m just in between.

- Jia Yi

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My greatest fear is the cockroach. Whenever I see a cockroach, I will scream like mad!

I will ask my grandma to beat the cockroach until it is dead. I know that I am cruel doing that but I just cannot stand cockroaches. Luckily, my house does not have many cockroaches but once in a blue moon it does appear.

Another animal I am afraid of is the lizard. When you beat it, its tail will drop off. Whenever I see a lizard, I will drop what I am holding and jump up on the sofa in fright. Unfortunately my house has some lizards, big and small. My mother puts onion in the areas in my house that she thinks lizards will appear there. However, it does not appear everyday. I am also afraid of another thing. Can you guess what it is? It is a ……. I will say what it is later. I know the thing is not real but I am still very scared of it. Whenever I sleep in the night, I will always think of it.

- Yi Lin

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Hi Miss April,
I want to tell you that I am very fearful of the thought of aliens going to invade the whole earth! I am also afraid of killer snakes! Did you know that there are such things as aliens? Some people know that because astronauts have taken photos of them. Other than aliens and snakes, I am also scared of graveyards and gravediggers!! I am also very afraid of zombies.

- Dylan

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