Personal Narrative: Invasion Of Privacy

I usually would not want hear other people’s thoughts because it is a complete invasion of privacy. In a world where it seems like everything is being watched or recorded, a person’s thoughts are all he or she has to him or herself. I am so paranoid that I actually censor my thoughts when surrounded by others because I have the irrational fear that people can read my mind and will think that I’m a complete psychopath. Even if a person is thinking about the reasons why he or she despises me or if he or she is thinking about some weird random story, I would never want to know what it is that he or she is thinking. It is very rare for people to actually know each other well. Many people hide certain parts of them away from others because they …show more content…
Except for many double checking that a suspicious person isn’t a murderer (like I said before), there is no reason for me to completely invade the one safe space a person has. I can’t imagine how awful it would be for me to live in a world where I know others can probably read my mind. I would probably just live in fear, cuddled in the corner of my room thinking about how I have no privacy at all, and everything that I think will be heard by someone else. Maybe it’s a weird fear, but it actually does terrify me that someone can hear my thoughts. That’s another reason why religion can also freak me out sometimes. Although I am not religious and don’t really believe in God anymore, when I did, I would become extremely uneasy. If God exists and has such power, it/he/she (I don’t exactly know what pronoun to use because there are way too many Gods/Religions) it can very easily just listen in on my thoughts. My thoughts aren’t shameful or weird or anything, I just really feel scared when something has the power to read my thoughts. This is crazy, but I actually would psych myself out and stay up late at night simply because I was terrified that some higher power could read my