Overcoming the Fear of Cockroaches || A Tale About My Battle With Cockroaches
My whole life, I must admit, I have been afraid of cockroaches, and you know what I hate the most—the flying ones! I don't just hate them; they disgust me. Yikes! I get really irritated at seeing one, and my whole system just begins to feel someone that moment at the sight of a cockroach.
I know that I am a man, and this is why I am trying to overcome the fear of cockroaches, and I am doing my best at it. This post was inspired because I got in contact with those demons yesterday, and since then, any tiny sound or a tiny feel on my body has made me go haywire.
So this was how it happened yesterday. I was working on my laptop, and I started feeling like using the restroom—not to urinate but to do other stuff—and I was really pressed. I had to rush to the toilet to offload those goodies in my stomach, and then I came to the sight of a cockroach in my toilet.
At the sight of the cockroach, I didn't know what happened, but I didn't feel pressed again. All I wanted to do was kill the cockroach, but in my attempt to kill it, it flew. That moment, I ran out of the bathroom.
My mind was calculating how I could slay the dragon as I ran out of the bathroom, leaving my sword—actually, a broom—in the bathroom. Then I remembered I had an insecticide that I could spray on it to kill it. I went straight to get my magic wand—the insecticide—in order to finish the battle.
Here is my magic wand...
I went back to the bathroom to continue the battle, took the wand, and said the magic word as I faced the wand at the cockroach on the wall, Abakadabra. Immediately, the cockroach fell off the floor. I took my sword, which is my broom, and then slayed the cockroach.
At that moment, I thought the war was over. As I was about to leave the toilet to return my wand, another cockroach flew from nowhere, unexpectedly.
With the fear that gripped me, I fell straight to the floor. I didn't fall a little; I fell hard on the drum that I use to keep water in my bathroom. I felt the pain of falling, and it was so painful. Mind you, I have not yet eased myself from using the toilet, even after the fall.
The moment I fell, I didn't even feel the pain of the fall. All I did was stand up immediately, find my magic wand, and shout "Abacadabra" at the second flying cockroach. I was so pissed and irritated at the same time. I had to make sure the cockroach was dead for sure, and then after that, I started searching for any other cockroach that could come out from nowhere. I sprayed my magic wand everywhere in the bathroom to be 100% sure I didn't get any unwanted surprises.
It was after this that I eased myself and laid off those things troubling me in my stomach.
I need some advice
If you are here and are not afraid of cockroaches, especially the flying ones, please, how do you do it? It would not be nice if I encountered a flying cockroach in a public area. I would definitely be the first person to run away.
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Okay, let me chip in this way;
What if you're married, I mean, legally married and possibly with a kid. Then, a 'demonic' cockroach appears. The demonic here means those with real dark colour and matured red. You'll run and leave your wife and baby. I know.
Mehn, guys that can not keeeel snake and cockroaches should not go into marriage abeggggi 😄
Abeggi I need proper training before I marry. How do you do it abeggi?
Lol.
There two set of people that don't fear cockroaches.
The ones born with the trait
The once that did initiation in the cemetery at midnight.
I'm among the No.1 . I can link you with No. 2 processes😄
The cockroach really did you dirty 😭😂😂, as in I can't even imagine the pain you went through chasing cockroach when you urgently need to make use of the toilet.
I have a cousin with the same kind of irritation for cockroach, like the site of cockroach can make her pass out. And she was a very stubborn type the only way to defeat her is to prank her with cockroach. The good news is as she grew older her fear for cockroach gradually decreased but I wouldn't say she is not scared of it anymore but instead fainting, she would rather chase it and kill it.
The truth is the fear of such things doesn't seem to go away, it can only reduce over time. And as a man you just have to learn how to act as if you are not scared of it to avoid being teased or pranked with a cockroach by your wife or children 😂😂😂
Bro it did me real dirty oh.
I am already learning to act strong and I don't show it that I am afraid of cockroaches when people are around.
It is better this way😅, a man should always act like a man.
Hahaha 😂😂🤣, Lmao 🤣
What an experience..... you mean you were able to withhold those waste products all because of cockroach 🪳? Hahaha 😂😂, this is way serious that I could imagine.. lolz
Glad you succeeded in committing murder , haha 😆😆😂, I only mean killing those cockroaches oo 😂
Then the fall, What can I say..sorry oo 😂🤣
there is no way I can stay in the toilet after sighting a cockroach. Oh, it is not possible. One person must die in the two of us, and it can never be me!
Hahaha 😂😂
I dont think this is a fear. Its like you're irritated by the cockroach.
If you're really afraid, you'll run. 😂😂.
Well, sorry for the fall though.
Come and do Internship at my hostel. I kill cockroach everyday.
By the time you use 1 week, you'll get used to it 😄😄.
This is another angle oh, it is not really fear per say. I am just irritated in seeing them.
That your hostel, I can never.
I can bet you are courageous, you even went to get tools to kill it😂😂
If I happen to see a cockroach especially the one that is flying in the evening, I’m definitely not spending the night at my place.
I will come back the next day or I will call my neighbor. Those creatures are something else😂😂😂
That's the difference with a man! Like seriously, you would do all these?
Yes I would, I have left my room for days because of cockroach😂😂😂
Hahaha, how can a man be afraid of coakroach? If you are a father, what will you do when you 2 years old child screened "daddy cone oo come and see ooo"?
hmm, I think I am more irritated than afraid? Because at the sight of them, I am more triggered to kill them but they must not touch me.
My advice is make them fear you, eat them.
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You would not be surprised that I have eaten a cockroach before...
Haha! You can't be serious, are you? I mean how can a man be afraid of cockroaches. And to think that you didn't feel press again at the sight of those tiny demons explains how much they irritate you. I guess it is because they know you are afraid of them that makes show up yesterday, so sorry for the fall yesterday. Please don't just act this weird in front of your kids😅
As far as I know, there is no secret or hack that will make you stop being afraid of cockroaches, you just have to train yourself, your mind most importantly to be the boss whenever those little dragons show up. Except you choose the other way round "eat them"😏
every one has their fears for real my brother.mine might not be cockroach tho,but that moment when you urgently want to use the toilet.seriously
Hmmm.... kinda serious. Your reaction when you see hem in public won't be funny (after the incident).
The courage should start from your mind, I mean how you see them. Well, I can say you aren't afraid of cockroaches because you could killed them. What's wrong is the irritation their presence cause; maybe you should start seeing them in another way, like other normal insect so as to reduce how they make you feel.
I wish I could help more bro.
Gosh your fear is real. It is good that you got rid of those cockroaches. I do not like them either and I am happy that I have not seen one for decades. They do not live here and I am happy about that.
How lucky you are... I wish it is the same here. Looks like I would start preparing to move in to your place 😂😂
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