the biggest fear

[subterranean]

so what's your biggest fear? is it always the same thing all your life or constantly changing as you grow older?

For me, one thing that i feared most when i was a teenage was growing old and fat, but at the moment my biggest fear is thinking that i wont find my opportunity to get something bigger and i might end up working in this MNC where i work now and turning in to a money slave forever....

ehm...bigt rats are also my biggest fear

[ajoe]

My biggest fear for the past two weeks: losing a good, good friend :(
I'm trying to fix this.

[amuse]

erck. hope it turns out well for you, ajoe.

[ajoe]

I'm optimistic. :)
But if I have to get over him, so be it.

[Kiwi Shelf]

Never really getting away from my mom, she is super controlling.

[verybaddmom]

my fears?
i am scared of losing my teeth.
i am scared of puberty (not mine, my kid's).
i am scared of winter driving.
but most of all i am scared of just floating through life always saying, "i'll do that when....the house is clean, i save some money, i am finished school...." and never DOING, just saying i want to.

[Kiwi Shelf]

Oh, I forgot to mention I am always afraid that people close to me are going to die in car accidents, especially during the winters here. My boyfriend is a main worry, he drives 2 and half hours every other weekend and during the winter I am basically attached to the phone until he calls and tells me he got to either location safely...

[simon]

Pretty much the only thing I am afraid of is bees, wasps, hornets, ever sine I sat on a nest as a kid and was stung about 20 plus times and had to take an oatmeal bath, oh I am afraid of those too.

[Isagel]

What´s an oatmeal bath?

Hope it all turned out alright , Ajoe.

I´m afraid of water. I almost drowned when I was little, and the fear kind of stuck. I´m really bad at swimming, I´m so tense so that whole floationg thing doesn´t work for me. When I was younger I was almost fobic. So when I was 15 I did the one thing that seemed logical to break it. I went to the pool and jumped of from two meters height. It helped somewhat. I will not do it again.

[atreides]

DEATH!

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[Jay]

staying alone

[Koa]

The future. Simple as that... Afraid of not getting a good job (kinda what sub says about being stuck and being 'a slave for the minimun wage' as a song says...), of not finding 'peace of mind' (more realistic than happiness), of being swallowed in a world war or whatever of that kind, of things changing so drastically that it sucks but at the same time not changing enough to make it great...

On a less philosohic notes, I'm scared of insects, even butterflies... They make me hysterical. And I'm afraid of driving in the traffic, cos drivers here are crazy, and in highways cos I'm scared of speed (some people make fun of me cos I drive 'slowly', id respect the city limit...but don't get much faster even in faster roads :blush:), but at least winters here are not dreadful as they are up there in canada...

[nome1486]

I'm afraid of going through life never forming a deep emotional attachment with anyone, having friendships that are only on the surface. In a similar vein, I'm afraid of never growing spiritually or emotionally and basically staying the same inside as I am now! I doubt the latter will come true, but the thought still scares me.

In sympathy with others, I also am afraid of driving, not to the point that I can't drive, but I still always fear the possibility of a car accident happening to myself or someone close to me. Spiders freak me out when they're inside the house, and cicadas...they leave their big shells lying around, which are really gross and crunch if you step on them. Another petty fear, one that could hardly be called a fear, is holes. I don't mean like large holes, but small holes in places where they shouldn't be or that look like they are the result of something like bullet holes or insect chewings. Even something like a porous rock grosses me out. I don't know if that makes any sense, but...

[atreides]

hmm on that driving note, Im afraid of driving in heights, like when you are on a road and on one side is a sharp drop, like cliff or a gorge. You get that a lot in new zealand. Im not used to it because where i lived before is flat country, but i get really nervous driving on heights now because i picture the car going over the edge, and i think one slip of the brake, one rung turn and i could go flying over.

Its weird because i dont have problems with heights if im walking somewhere, or if someone else is driving.

[ravana]

I'm scared of losing my slimness ever.
but it's nothing beside my biggest fear: the future of my country. I'm scared we can't get our attacked territories back. It's pity that I'm not able to do anything for that...

[Sancho]

My biggest fear is what may happen this November.

Whoopsie, political.

[emily655321]

:D Sancho and I have similar fears.

I'm afraid of irreplaceable antiquities being destroyed.
I'm afraid of angry people, and fast cars, and heights, and deep water.
I'm most afraid of just the sight of really big things, like whales, mountains, ocean waves... I'm weird like that.
I'm afraid of human corpses, too.
And I'm afraid of bugs with big swollen bodies. :sick: blech!
I'm afraid that something will accidentally catch on fire.
I'm afraid of dogs.

For some reason I'm not afraid of bee stings, or cat claws, or blades of any kind. Which I probably should be.

I'm afraid of amusement park rides (I hate the feeling of falling).
I'm afraid of c.ockroaches and spiders.

[crisaor]

so what's your biggest fear? is it always the same thing all your life or constantly changing as you grow older?
I'd have to say the second option. It keeps changing with age, as I don't have a constant fear (i.e. rats, spiders, blood, etc.). Some of the fears I have had in the past years: death, ending up alone, growing up, fear for the future of the country I live in, never get pass the university, etc. Most of those are closely related to the age I had at that time, I'm sure some of them are pretty common. Come to think of it, that's quite a list there. Mmm. Gotta do some rethinking. Ah, what the hell, I'll stay up all night with my lights on eating ice cream, that oughta do it... :rolleyes:

[subterranean]

....Ah, what the hell, I'll stay up all night with my lights on eating ice cream, that oughta do it... :rolleyes:

thats the spirit Cris..;)



(kinda what sub says about being stuck and being 'a slave for the minimun wage' as a song says...)

well in my case, the wage is not the issue, but slaving for money is the issue..here :(

[verybaddmom]

well, i just discovered im a little superstitious. my movers dropped and broke one of my mirrors yesterday. i was jumpy the rest of the night. i dont know if i am scared, but i was really hoping that i would have a clean fresh start in my new apartment, and well...im afraid that might not happen now, what with seven years bad luck. is it my bad luck because it was my mirror? or is it the mover's back luck cause he dropped it? i wonder how that works?

[Jay]

It's the mover's. You have nothing to do with it. It didn't even happen on the same planet ;). Poor guy, seven years of bad luck... well, guess he's now all 'I don't believe in that kind of things anyway'. My point, go look for a black cat and walking under a ladder's fun ;):). Wouldn't worry too much... only if you happened to develop a liking in the mirror ;):angel:.

[Taliesin]

Here's a list of phobias (http://www.phobialist.com/)

Sometimes I am afraid that my imagination gets out of control, because when it does, I can very easily get very afraid. For example, once I was having a walk and then I suddenly invented a mythological creature. One that has never existed before. And a very dangerous one. And, believe it or not, I was afraid of it for some time. But then, I made it so that the creature could never move when the sun is setting(because it was at the moment) and then I got over the fear :banana:

I am also afraid sometimes that I can never overcome the fear of death.

And I am afraid of solitude; that I would not love and had no friends.

And I am afraid of heights. It is a pity because I have a dream of parachuting.

[subterranean]

It's the mover's. You have nothing to do with it. It didn't even happen on the same planet ;). Poor guy, seven years of bad luck... well, guess he's now all 'I don't believe in that kind of things anyway'. My point, go look for a black cat and walking under a ladder's fun ;):). Wouldn't worry too much... only if you happened to develop a liking in the mirror ;):angel:.

i suppose there are several "incidents" which people considered as the sign of bad luck, like dropping a plate or glass..well perhaps most breakable homeware stuffs :D...

Sometimes I am afraid that my imagination gets out of control, because when it does, I can very easily get very afraid. For example, once I was having a walk and then I suddenly invented a mythological creature. One that has never existed before. And a very dangerous one. And, believe it or not, I was afraid of it for some time. But then, I made it so that the creature could never move when the sun is setting(because it was at the moment) and then I got over the fear

well i also feel like there are creatures in my room somtimes, then i will try to convinced my self by peeking to under my bed

[nome1486]

Sometimes I am afraid that my imagination gets out of control, because when it does, I can very easily get very afraid. For example, once I was having a walk and then I suddenly invented a mythological creature. One that has never existed before. And a very dangerous one. And, believe it or not, I was afraid of it for some time. But then, I made it so that the creature could never move when the sun is setting(because it was at the moment) and then I got over the fear


I like how you deal with your overactive imagination!

[Miranda]

I am afraid of being buried alive. Sometimes when I hear about an accident and people are buried..or like the Russian submarine that sank but they couldn't get the men out, I get sucked in by my imagination, living their horror, until I feel like I can't breathe. I have to deliberately 'turn off' my imagination because otherwise I would go crazy.

[Max Whittaker]

Long ago, I was afraid of getting old.

I hate disease! My biggest fear would probably be an epidemic of some horrific disease. That would be awful. I feel sure I could handle anything but that!

I fear wasted potential. When I see a father tell his child that he is not good enough or that he is stupid, I just want to cry!

I know my death is inevitable. It's a part of life. I've excepted that. My greatest fear regarding death would be to have my life and death to mean nothing. For the world to be no better after I die would be the greatest shame.

[baddad]

Fear......I am afraid of heights...so I jumped from a perfectly good airplane.....eight times. I am still afraid of heights, but now I don't scream like a banshee and frighten the other passengers when I fly. But now, for some strange reason I like to sit by the door of the plane.....

I am afraid of drowning (and creatures lurking in the depths).....so I went white-water rafting on the Kicking Horse River in the Rocky Mountains, Canada. It didn't seem dangerous enough........

I have no wish to die at an early age, but regularly race a motorcycle at speeds in excess of 230 kph. I fear any sudden stop......like hitting a moose maybe...

[Julzah]

It's not a fear that nags me every waking moment, but i always know it is there. I'm afraid of waiting for nothing. I'm afraid that my whole life I'll be waiting for someone who will love me far more than the rest, waiting to have friends that are acceptive and never resentful, waiting to feel complete and content with my life and knowing that it couldn't possibly get better. My biggest fear is that those things will never be accomplished.
Oh, and I'm also afraid of having giant rats in a cage strapped to my face. Wait, correction, a big bag of misquitos and horseflies and ticks in a big bag strapped to my face. Now that would be scary!

[Bakiryu]

Fear of isolation, loneliness.

When I was a little girl, I was really sick, so I was in the hospital all the time. Worse of it was when there was no one there and it was night.
Even now, night reminds me of being alone. I still fear the dark.

My worst fear is being trapped somewhere where no one can hear me, or see me or interact with me on any way.

[Pensive]

Hmmmm. In no specific order:

I fear lizards.
I fear the writer/narrator agreeing with female inferiority in the books, especially when the writer/narrator herself happens to be a female.
I fear not being able to get good marks in the subjects I desire and thus not making it to university and not getting a good (desired) job.
I fear being a huge disappointment for my parents.
I fear love. Getting emotionally involved in people. So in other words I fear friendship too.
I fear hatred.
Even though I fear hatred but since I don't always get to remain away from my fears it can happen that I hate people and in such a case I fear doing what they did to make me hate them/becoming the people I would have hated.
I fear desire without fulfiling which my life will have some really painful moments.

But it seems my fears love me immensely. They don't fear me like I fear them. Lizards appear to be more attracted to the room I am in than any other. I have also come across books whose first preference seemed to say that women are inferior creatures. These days I do not feel like studying at all for school and I don't know how I can get the grades I desire by studying as little as I do unless some miracle happens. And I am not a 'good religious kid' which ought to be of some disappointment for my parents. Even if that is not, my future grades might be if I remain uninterested in studies the whole year as I am these days. Now comes love. Hmmm once again giving my fear pleasure enough I tend to get pretty close to people very easily. Many of my class-mates seem to have forgotten those who have left but those people still remain in my mind and I feel nostalgic remembering the moments spent with them.

Since my fears are so attracted to me, I fear them too. In other words, or to summarize all this mess, I fear my fears. Fear itself is my biggest fear. Do I make any sense?

[Idril]

Outside of my weird little phobias, birds, sedation, those flappy windsock people things, my heaven's those things creep me out...my biggest life fear is losing my dad. I'm very attached to my dad, not in anyway that is creepy or unnatural :p but he the epitome to me of what it means to be a good husband and father and human being and I will be lost without his guidance and his freakish ability to look at things completely objectively. He's in his mid 70's now so I know the time is coming and it will destroy me when it does. My sister and I have talked a lot about this and we've come to the conclusion that my brother will have to handle all the details because neither she or I will be able to function for a long time afterwards.

[aabbcc]

Butterflies.

[Erichtho]

I'm afraid of jellyfish. :blush:
My biggest fear is probably that of being old and sick and not being able to help myself anymore, vegetating for years before I can die physically; both a burden and personificated guilty conscience for the people who are close to me but cannot help me (enough) then. A nightmarish outlook. :(

[Sarasvati21]

I'm afraid of my house in the middle of the night.

:blush:

[kilted exile]

failure, it is the min fear I have

[mickitaz]

I would have to say driving. I didn't start driving til I was 23. And even then mostly everyone else drove for me. Most recently, I got into a fender bender (someone hit me) and this has enhanced this fear somewhat more. The sad thing about this is my Mom lives three hours away, and I haven't seen her since December. I just can't bring myself to make the trip.

I am also afraid of making the wrong decision. I will literally dwell on the possibilities of what to do and what I can do. It keeps me up at night. My books help keep this under control, but changing my thoughts. But if I am not reading something, I usually can go up to 4 nights with out sleep.

[blazeofglory]

Fear are ingrained in life and I have fears of all types and sometimes the same fears become intense and sometimes mild.