I am afraid of nothing

Fear.

Where does it come from, what does it do with us and where does it go to, once we have experienced it?

I was afraid to pick up the phone when I was a child. I feared not to know the answers to the questons of the strangers on the phone. And sometimes I merely feared to forget my own name and what the phrases for a polite phone-answer were, as all of this were just words to me. Invented, made up, changeable.

As I grew older, I learned that people fear a variety of things

Hunger

(Nuclear)war

strangers

torture

death

As I was listening to other people's fears, I started to be afraid aswell.

For example I was afraid to travel to and in Iran or Pakistan.

But.

Not knowing and prejudices based on the account of generalising media lead to fear of things that we can't picture and have or will never experience.

A taxidriver in Tabriz asked me, if I wasn't afraid to travel as a single woman. His wife is so afraid of the outside world that she doesn't even go without someone accompanying her, to the food store.

If I had been clever, I had answered as Samina, an iranian girl I met In Zanjan, answered as I told her that I am sometimes afraid of horror-movies. She told me: „I am never afraid of horror-movies. I am never afraid of anything. Except of god.“