Tuesday, February 5, 2008


I have been labelled taray, astig, suplada (basically, a bitch) war-freak and other  adjectives along that line. Ummmm....not true, medyo lang(slightly).

I have been known to be quite fearless and almost panic-free in hair-raising situations. I am not afraid of the dark, nor of horror movies, nor of multo (ghost), bampira (vampire) and manananggal (a half-bodied woman flying around with bat-like-wings happily sucking out fetuses from pregnant women- a supernatural being indigenous in the Philippines)

You can count on me to be the one to light fireworks, climb on trees and face a bully for you. You can expect me to take you to the ER driving like MadMax (wait, too retro) umm.... driving like the
Transporter.
But! Do not! Please!... let a real-live-turkey near me!

Icka said Mom, face your fears. Gosh! Give me a break! It's not as if I'll be a lesser person if I refuse to rub-noses with a freaking turkey. Okay. Okay. Ethan is watching. I have to show him that mom is fearless.

I am not afraid of the dark and of other supernatural stuff because I was raised not to. 

I am scared stiff of turkeys (male specifically) because I was chased and pecked by one (owned by our neighbor Ka Celing) when I was 6.

What is there to fear but fear itself?  

The greatest fear is fear itself.

Wise words. True enough.

For me, fear is an unfortunate experience related to a specific event, person or circumstance that developed into anxiety as what happened to my turkey terror. This turkey business was reinforced when a few years after the turkey terror, a couple of geese (again, owned by Ka Celing) went after me. At age 23, a flock of geese and a couple of turkeys went after me a as I was hanging-out clothes to dry in my ma-in-law's backyard. I don't know if it's me or these feathered-terrors!

As Pavlov will likely agree (if he were alive today), I was conditioned to fear turkeys, geese, ducks and other fine-feathered-friends (yours, not mine). Not chickens. I like them, especially the fried ones.

What now? Face your fears! It will set you free. Visualize a "fearless" you rising to the occasion....experiencing new thrills....plunging into new challenges....being useful to mankind and setting a good example to young minds..................

Show Me That Turkey! (But make sure it's inside the cage)




Posted by desperateblogger On 2/05/2008 10:12:00 AM 6 comments

6 comments:

  1. engaging, funny, inspiring...thanks! looking forward to reading more of your blogs :-)

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  2. turkeys, geese, "bingala" (i don't know the known term for these fierce fowls) are the bane of my childhood existence in the province (countryside). LOL. but i didn't grow phobia like you did. :D

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  3. hahaha... great, at least in a way i'm not alone ...

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  4. I used to hate these fowls because my lola used to have a few. Whenever I go to their house to visit them, these turkeys would charge at me. I don't know why.

    When some were cooked, I can't eat them because in a way, i "knew" them :)

    Funny post.

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  5. same here. can't, won't eat turkey. maybe we have "something" that attracts these turkeys to us.

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  6. Maybe in your past life you did something bad to these feathered ones. :) Well, I wouldn't want to be chased by turkeys and the like too. But know what, I don't like seeing stuffed turkeys. I just have goose bumps looking at that hole with all those stuffing.

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