Romaisa's Reflections

I read somewhere once that what you fear is how you died in your past life. Well, in that case, I either died from a ghost, from being in the dark, or from being in deep water. My friend fears storms and has unexplained memories of a tornado that never actually happened, so maybe this theory is true. Like many other people, I have a fear of the dark. However, it’s not the actual darkness that I’m scared of. It’s what could be in it. Since you can’t see well in the dark, you don’t know what possible threats could be hiding in it. Even though there’s nothing dangerous in my house that would be hiding in the dark, I’m still scared of it.  Another thing I’m scared of is ghosts. One day in fifth grade, my friend was telling me ghost stories, for some unknown reason. I have no idea what it was about those stories, but from that day on, I became terrified of ghosts. Even though I was scared of the supernatural, I’d become addicted to reading ghost stories online, scaring myself on purpos

At first, I didn’t know what to write for my blog post. I like photography, so I ended up choosing the first prompt. I found a picture of me from around 12 years ago and asked my mom about it. She said, “People used to call you Dora,” and when I asked why, she responded, “Because they think you look like Dora”. I guess I looked like Dora. I had short hair like her. As a kid, I was obsessed with Dora. I was one of those people that talked to the TV when she asked a question.  Anyway, this picture was taken in California at Huntington Beach. This is where I started to learn how to swim. One of my dad’s friends brought me in the ocean and I splashed around with these green floaties I had. We also went to Disneyland (or Universal Studios; I don't remember which one). Mostly what attracted me to this picture was my smile. I don’t often smile like that now, so this picture makes me want to smile more. That’s kinda deep lol. My mom also said that she likes my “million-dollar