When I was a kid my parents took me to San Francisco. It was the first time I saw a real homeless person complete with matted hair, dirty clothes, smell and mental illness. I couldn't wrap my head around it. Ever since I've had this irrational fear that I'll end up like that. As a result, I tend be very careful with money and paranoid about losing my job. Ironically, I love to go camping, particularly back-country.
The other fear is sharks. Similar to someone else I have a real issue going in water above my waist. That said, I've gone snorkeling with reef sharks and swimming with Whale Sharks and it was fine. I think it's more a fear of floating in an abyss that may house monsters without being able to see anything coming. I have been forced to get out of the water twice because of a shark: once during the Jaws-like shark panic of 2011 in Western Australia (I don't actually know if a shark was there but a shark helicopter swooped right down to us as if there was and forced us to the beach) and the other in Hawaii because a Tiger Shark was spotted the day after a guy got bit by a Tiger Shark in the next bay over.
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