Before nursing school (in the early 1990's), I had a bad case of cyberphobia, or fear of computers. They looked so complicated that I didn't even want to touch one. My daughter #1, Anna, had already graduated from college with a degree in Computer Science so they certainly were beyond my capability.
At nursing school, there were many of us who shared this fear. We wanted to take care of people, not machines. Our instructors told us, "You WILL learn to use computers." So we did! At my last job, I was given "Super-user" status on computer so I could help my colleagues with the newest updates! What a long way I came!
Several of my family members suffered with aviophobia, or fear of flying in airplanes. One man, now in his forties, so avoided flying that he drove long distances. He finally decided to conquer this fear due to really bad traffic in large cities!
I'll also admit to mild cases of dentophobia, fear of dentists, glossophobia, fear of speaking in public, and arachnophobia, fear of spiders. These seem to be general, universal fears of many people. Over the years, I've just talked myself into accepting these things as 'good.' After all, I tell myself, spiders eat a lot of insects for us!
If you'd like to see an interesting list of many great fears, go to www.phobialist.com. There are some very unusual fears!: cataptro: fear of mirrors, arimophobia: fear of numbers, and to me, the most interesting: arachibutyro: fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
Several family members have acrophobia, fear of heights and also entomophobia, fear of insects, and have no interest in possibly conquering their phobias. One daughter had cynophobia, fear of dogs, when she was a pre-schooler; now she owns two active dogs.
A "phobia" is an unnatural fear of what might happen, way out of proportion to reality. Do you have any fears that are holding you back from wholeheartedly participating in and enjoying life? It's almost like hiding behind a big, tall, dark column in the back of a concert or sports event you'd really like to watch, or sitting on the side, afraid to learn how to dance. The phobia itself causes bad feelings in you. This is NOT a happy way to live!
Is it "Get a Grip" time for you? Don't let anything hold you back! Face your every fear, one by one, try to gradually talk yourself out of having an unnatural fear. Caution is one thing: we near to fear stepping out in heavy traffic, etc. But we shouldn't let a fear which we could conquer hold us back and cause us pain. If you need to do so, please get counseling to help you. YOU CAN DO IT!!!
It's an entirely good thing I learned to be proficient on computers! Tatooed in our little nursing student brains was, "If it's not documented, it's not done!!" So, we started out writing our vital signs and assessments then gradually progressed, as medical institutions embraced technology, putting into computers our statistics and evaluations. I personally don't know if it save us time, but it most assuredly made our information readily available to everyone on the healthcare team. I'm told that soon my last hospital will have vital signs automatically entered into a patient's record.
I thank you, Anna, for giving me my first computer which was a glorified Word Processor. I have enjoyed working with the various computers tremendously! Computers have given me the world! Especially enjoyable to me has been working on my blogs. Thanks also to Dave, my son-in-law, for teaching me to "blog." This is, by my count, Blog #500 on this topic!!!
Lord, sometimes You take away my breath by allowing me to do things I never thought was possible! Thank you many more times! Help all my fellow friends and would-be friends to soar beyond what they think is possible and enjoy the fullness of LIFE, the life You have given us!
FYI: I'll also be working on my travel blog later today. I hope to reach my final destination, if the fog ever clears!! (www.rockingthruworld.blogspot.com)
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