Cause and Effect Essay

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Cause and Effect Essay
 My whole life I have been constantly haunted. My fear has had many effects on my life. My fear has held me back from many things I would probably enjoy. In order to understand the effect my fear has had on my life, you must first understand where my fear first came from.

 I have lived my whole life in the mountains of West Virginia, and I have only been to the beach a couple times for sports. When I was in elementary school my older sister decided we were going to watch movies one day. The whole day my sister made me watch every Jaws movie, and Deep Blue Sea. When the end of the day came I was traumatized. I had never once feared a creature so much in my entire life.

 Since my experience I have never lost my fear of sharks. One effect of my fear was my fear of water. When I was little I was in constant fear of the deep end of the YMCA pool because I was convinced that somewhere lurking in those 12 foot clear chlorine filled waters was a Great White ready to gobble me up. This fear caused my swimming lessons to go badly, but my fear of the deep end eventually moved away.

Another effect of my fear is my inability to swim in water other than a pool. I will never be spotted swimming in the river, and definitely not in the ocean. When I go to the beach I refuse to go above my knees in the water in fear of a remake of the movie Jaws. My fear has caused me to never experience many things I would have enjoyed before, and things that I now know I could never enjoy.