Overcoming the inner fear When I was a little child, I'm afraid of dogs. I remember that once in a Spring Festival, I paid a visit to my uncle. In the garden of his house, I saw a big black dog. It chased after me. And l ran through several parterres and ran upstairs, hidding myself in the room, then finally escaped from it, not being hurt. After this experience, l always ran away the instant l saw a dog. And the dog always chase after me and bark fiercely after me. The more scared l was, the fiercer dogs turn to be. I gradually developed a canine phobia. Then as l gradually grow up, one day somehow it occurred to me that being afraid of dogs is something so shameful. So when l saw a dog again, l no longer ran away immediately, but stood confronting it. Strangely, the dog also stopped and stood still. It barked at me, month widly opened, as if it was going to pounce on me. However in fact, it didn't move a single step towards me at all.