Irrational fears

[emjay]

One day I was on holiday in London and walking along the banks of the river on a path with railings. I had to stay on the right-hand side as far away from the railings as possible, essentially hugging the wall on the other side of the path. The fear wasn't that I would fall in accidentally but that I'd lose control of my will somehow and actually choose to jump in. That was weird. But then I heard that my mum had had a similar fear when she'd been in an opera box; she was afraid that she'd choose to jump down from it and therefore stayed away from the edge.

Anyway, night all