Irrational Fears

Everybody has their likes and dislikes of different foods, but my dislikes are a little bit weird. I have a few weird hates for foods, and a few popular ones. A vegetable that I have found at least a bunch of people hating on is onions.

    Onions are foul tasting ringed slices of bitterness. Their pungent smell reeks in your mouth after consuming them. It emits such a strong odor that it makes people cry. They absorb the genuine flavors of other foods in the dish and replace them with the onion's sour and bitter taste. They have a horrible crunchy texture followed by astringently rancid juices squirting out. Whenever I accidentally bite on one that is inside my food, my whole body freezes with disgust and I feel an urge to puke. I have always been told by my mother that I wouldn't even taste the onions, but now that I think about it, why use the onions in the first place if they are tasteless. When cooked, the onions look like thick strands of hard noodles that haven't been boiled enough, or like long mealworms or maggots that have been rotting in your dish so long, they have stopped wriggling. They have a dreadful taste, texture, stench, and appearance, so I don’t really know why people would eat them.
    I have one really weird food that I would try to avoid biting into, an apple. I really like the taste of apples, but I have a problem with them. Hearing people bite into juicy and crunchy apples is like listening to someone scrape their fingernails on a chalk board for half an hour, but compressed in a minute. I am not sure what is causing me for this to happen, but it has been happening ever since I was little. I would shiver, curl up in a ball, make scrunched up faces, and turn extremely paranoid. I could withstand it for some time, but when it is prolonged, I would turn crazy. Now, even if I think of apples and their sounds, I would shiver and turn cold. I could hear an apple bite from across the room, and start getting goosebumps. This irrational fear of apples has destroyed a great fruit in my life, but I have found replacements for them, like pears.
    I know that the people that read this might go to buy and eat an apple just for me, but I guess I will just try to live through it. I don’t want to feel like the only person with weird and irrational fears of things, so respond to this and tell me what you are afraid of.

Australia Is Not That Different

Ever since I attended school in the United States, I have gotten questions that have made me laugh, sigh, or even mad. For example I have been asked numerously, “Are there kangaroos jumping around your neighborhood like how we have squirrels?” I would laugh hysterically and in my mind wish that it was true, but sadly answer with a no. I would explain how kangaroos didn’t live in the cities and how we lacked in crazy squirrels, we had plenty of colorful, but noisy birds. Where I lived, Sydney, there were cockatoos, white parrot-like birds with yellow Mohawk-like hair, colorful parrots, black crows, kookaburras, and hundreds of other beautiful birds found nearly in every livable tree. One thing that started out fun, but is now annoying is when people walk up to me and ask me, “Speak some Australian” like Australian is another type of language. I would explain how there is no Australian language, and that it is just an accent that differs from different people. When I say this, people would disagree and say that they don’t have an accent when they obviously do, but they are just so used to this way of speaking that they do not know any different. Plus, I would tell people who ask me, “Are you Australian?” how being Australian is a nationality, and is not running through my genes. I would then compare how being Australian is like how they are American, it is not in your genes. 

Even though I enjoy laughing at how ignorant some people can be, I do get tired of the same questions repeated over and over again like they are the only things people know about Australia. Just today I was asked, “Do Australians dress weird, like do they wear really funny clothes?” and “Is Australia just plain desert?”

This made me surprised, and I answered, “You do know that Sydney is just a city like San Francisco. It is really not that much different.” These questions have made me realize that some people really think Australians have different lifestyles just because it is in a different location as the United States.

Jurassic Park: The Ride

The most exhilarating thrill ride I have ever experienced is the Jurassic Park: The Ride in Universal Studios Hollywood, CA. 

First, the boat enters the water and calming, but adventurous music plays in the background. A man narrates your ride, telling you what is happening and what you are seeing. You travel inside the jungle of the Jurassic Park, and realistic, life sized dinosaurs appear out of the bushes and water, spraying all of the passengers with water. Dinosaurs like the Ultrasaurs, Stegosaurs, and other dinosaurs appear spontaneously, surprising your senses.The calming music stops, and gets replaced by tense, sudden music. You could hear electricity sparking while the dinosaurs screech. It is interrupted by muffled radio transmissions warning the boat that danger was ahead. 

You are transported to a route where the park is torn apart, and a smashed car falls off the ledge. High-pitched shrieking from dinosaurs with frills attacks your ears while they spray liquid at your face. Extremely realistic dinosaurs stalk and break through to you while you go through a tunnel surrounded with pipes. The dinosaurs break the pipes, exploding gases that are supposedly poisonous to you, giving you an adrenaline rush. Everything becomes pitch-black when suddenly loud emergency sirens blast out of control, mixing with the ear-piercing shrills from the dinosaurs.You finally see light coming from where you are escaping to, but all of a sudden the music becomes louder and louder, rising to a climax where a lady in the background says this area will self-destruct in 15 seconds. This is when a gigantic Tyrannosaurus Rex appears in front of you, scaring the daylights out of you. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one says the robotic lady, and when the whole vehicle is about to be eaten by the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the passengers go straight down on a 84 foot gravity-defying plunge. Everyone inside the raft becomes completely soaked and extremely electrified from the thrilling ride. 

This is the most blood-tingling and mind-blowing water-based amusement ride anyone could ever try. This has adventure, lifelike dinosaurs, and even a heart-stopping drop. Everyone on this Earth should be perceived of this amazing ride. Consent should not be necessary to go to and enjoy this ride.  There isn't much more a person could ask for in this eye-popping five-minute experience.

My Superpower

If I had a super power it would be the ability to create an item by visualizing it in your mind. Others might want to fly or have super speed, but if you could make things with your mind, you could just visualize a jet pack to fly or a race car for speed. You could make up anything you want from guns to fight crime to food to fight poverty. Visualizing items is the best super power since you could do whatever you wanted since you controlled matter.

Another super power that would be covered by my supreme power is laser eyes. You need to have glasses to control your laser eye beams, but if you had a laser gun, it would be much simpler. You wouldn't need diamond skin to protect yourself because you could just imagine bulletproof or even grenade-proof shields and armor that would protect you when against loaded murderers. Invisibility is another superpower wanted by many. This is replaced by simply creating an invisibility cloak. Breathing underwater wouldn't be a problem for you have unlimited oxygen tanks.

This superpower is one of the handiest and most useful one there is. When going to the airport, you wouldn't ever need to bring luggage or go shopping for new clothes at the mall since you could just get a new outfit in a matter of seconds. Everything necessary for everyday living would be at the tip of your fingers. Whenever you are thirsty or hungry, food is one visualization away. You could even create your own private island where it would be customized and built without spending a penny. It could have a huge mansion and everything you could imagine. Whenever you are tired, you could just imagine the most comfortable bed that could ever exist on Earth. It could be just condensed fluffy clouds or whatever you would like. This superpower would be the one that that literally brings your dreams to life.

Just Kidding and Ganging Up

Just Kidding and Ganging Up

    Mistreating others verbally or by force is not only totally wrong, but is absolutely unreasonable. When I was being made fun of by a few people, I felt humiliated and extremely mad. I couldn't do anything since I wasn't brave enough, so I tried to play along and pointlessly laugh at myself. I think people bully others to make themselves feel better and to scare others into liking them so they don't get humiliated like the last person. I think a person's own anger makes them not think of what they are doing, and let out their rage on others. That is never an acceptable reason for bullying an innocent person though.
    When some classmates started and continued making fun of me and how I dressed, I felt so much anger that it nearly compressed into tears. My face was completely red and burning, and I couldn't control it. I visualized a lot of things I could do to them for revenge, but my conscience took over and calmed me down. Being made fun of is one of the most emotional acts a student could feel in school.
    I couldn't do anything since I was too nice to abuse them back, so I waited until the moment went by. I really wanted to stand up for myself, but they had the power in numbers and I didn't have enough confidence. I tried to laugh along with them and smile to make them think it didn't bother me, but it really did. Even when they got over it a minute later, I still didn't get over it. I felt like I needed to change myself so others wouldn't poke fun at me anymore, or should I say stab fun at me.
    I think that people hurt others just so they could gain confidence in themselves. When bullies attack at school, they do it to gain pride and fear from their classmates. They also do it just for their own entertainment and a good laugh with their posse. They hurt their peers so they get known as the cool person that no one should mess around with and make fun of. Hurting people who are humans just like you is unbelievably shocking and truly unacceptable.