L'ombelico del mondo AKA the Belly Button

... Since time immemorial I always had one fear... irrational, stupid, with no scientific foundation whatsoever .... but nevertheless a real fear ... some people are afraid of spiders, snakes, some people are even scared of owls....
and I? well except for cockroaches I .. I ...
I always thought
( rationally i know it is not true, but i am really terrified that it might happen)
that my belly button had no bottom .... yes a kind of Pozzo di San Patrizio where there is no end,
and i always had the fear that if i poked my belly button and went too deep i would reach my internal organs....
In my fear only a thin membrane protects me from spilling my guts  out, so going near the belly button has always been a no no, as i might break something and it could all turn out poopoo (literally...)
...
and now...
and now as the bump is growing growing growing (2cm more a week it seems)

SHOCK AND HORROR

i can see the bottom of it...

I am havign nightmares about it...
I am waking up in the middle of the night sweating and trembling with my hands on my tummy convinved that the impossible has actually happened...
the belly button is inside out and the membrane that protects my interiors is broken and the guts are coming out....
Could i be more silly??????
Not really but it is really taken all of my courage to face one of my oldest fear and put one of my fingers inside the belly button and actually feel its bottom....
and EEEWWWWW it is disgusting..
I suppose the final test will be when i actually will have no belly button as the bump will stretch even further in the next 3 months......

Power to the tummy.... LONG LIVE THE TUMMY