Your Greatest Fear(s)

[JFK]

Spiders crawling in my ears or up my nose while I sleep.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Redliner

Something happening to my wife and/or kids. Personally, getting old and losing my mind.

Oh man, this is huge for me. I turn 23 in a month and I feel like I'm pissing away my youth.

[JFK]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Oh man, this is huge for me. I turn 23 in a month and I feel like I'm pissing away my youth.

I'm in the same boat as you (age-wise), opposite problem though. I feel like I've spent too much time being a youth, and pissed away my future. I'm getting to the point where I should have a career in mind, but I'm still just winging it.

I'm afraid I'll live my whole life without ever finding a career, and just bounce around from one job to the next, never really establishing myself.



EDIT: or is this what you meant? I may have misunderstood

[Knut]

I am afraid of becoming a Geek like the rest of you..

[steve954]

Death itself isn't scary; it's the knowledge of your own doom and nothing you can do to put yourself out of misery

- falsely accused of a major crime and end up in a max security prison; (in a foreign country for more special effects)

- wake up alive in a coffin and have enough oxygen flowing thru to keep you alive

- get trapped in a cave and no one knew you went there (ie: the movie, "descent")

- stranded somewhere where you will surely die from hunger or animal attack; stranded in the ocean is bad but it won't take long till you drown.

- getting my leg trapped under a rock or a tree and I have to make a decision to free myself by cutting my leg loose using a small pocket knife 'cus I will certainly die otherwise.... and die anyways from blood loss.

[Ford Prefect]

Beer strikes. I lived through the Black Years in the early 1980s.

Seriously ... that something bad happens to my wife or kids.

[Machiavelli]

Something happening to my family is #1.

For myself:

- Spiders, although this is getting better. I can kill them now without too much hyperventilation.
- Choking, and being alone when it happens.
- Going blind.
- Being in an accident and left with horrible brain damage.

[AvsJerk]

Literally dying of thirst is pretty high on my list. I'm also pretty fearful of paralysis and blindness as others have already mentioned. I remember reading once that being deaf is actually more alienating than being blind...but I have to call b.s. on that one...I think I would actually be alright with deafness. Oh, and being in a concentration camp would be horrifying as well.

[Dion]

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Flying or a plane crash doesn't phase me much. I've always loved flying. I'm not afraid of an accident as I have been in a serious car accident and know how I handle the situation.

Lots of people said public speaking, if I could public speak as a career I'd die a very happy man (I'm currently working on it actually).

My biggest fears are cold calling, or making small talk at an event where I don't know anyone. I get so anxious I almost get sick. Hate it, Hate it, Hate it, Hate it. But working on it. Oddly enough if you come up to me and start talking, again no problem.

So for the advantage of people like me skimming and not wanting to read the posts:

1 - Cold Calling
2 - Starting Small Talk/Mingling with Strangers

[Hammertime]

dieing a virgin.

[Kipper is King]

Originally Posted by Hesla

I am afraid of becoming a Geek like the rest of you..

Uh...hate to be the bearer of bad news, but...

[J pold]

I know this is strange but large objets in water, the submerged part of a large boat for example something about it just chills me, as well as shipwrecks.

Also anything happening to one of my siblings, and bats.

[Cheerio]

Clowns... Seriously, multiple negative experiences as a youngin have changed me

[Muta]

I had a dream last night where I was pregnant and had a baby. And I'm a dude.

While that was scary enough, I'm more fearful of what my brain is going to conjure up tonight when I sleep. Stupid wanker thinks he can always get the best of me.

[enthused]

Birds
Paralysis
Being trapped in a very tight, confined space
The dark... only because I am a girl and watch too many crime shows, I'm always convinced someone is hiding and waiting for me........

[Ren]

Being waterboarded.

[Drury18]

Hot Air Balloons.

In them, flying overhead or even just inflated/deflated within a mile of me. I will unheroicially dive under something if I see one.

[alltherage]

My greatest fear, maybe not life threatening like most of yours out there, but something I worry about, is not being able to have babies.

[flip]

Originally Posted by alltherage

My greatest fear, maybe not life threatening like most of yours out there, but something I worry about, is not being able to have babies.

Actually becoming a father is probably one of my biggest fears. I only have one male cousin with my last name. If he doesn't have kids my dad and my uncle's last name will die (at least from our immediate family).

The closest I'll come to having kids is a cat.