What do you fear?

SeaCat

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Okay this is something I have been thinking about for some time. I kep seeing comments on different threads that I feel can only be inspired by that persons fears.

So what are your fears? What scares the living crap out of you? What makes you head or that hidey hole with a quick stop at the hooch cabinet?

For me it is the idea of being dishonored by my actions.

Cat
 
SeaCat said:
Okay this is something I have been thinking about for some time. I kep seeing comments on different threads that I feel can only be inspired by that persons fears.

So what are your fears? What scares the living crap out of you? What makes you head or that hidey hole with a quick stop at the hooch cabinet?

For me it is the idea of being dishonored by my actions.

Cat

Getting cought 100 mi. offshore when the storm moves in :eek:
 
Being helpless. Having no choices at all except those other people want me to have.
 
I fear that in some way I or someone else will damage my children and leave them unable to function. No that I am abusive, just that some choice I make will render them inable to live their lives to the fullest potential.

I also fear that underneath the confidence I have in myself, the core person (who is not confident at all) will limit me in achieveing all that I strive for everyday.
 
Hey all,

How well do I understand these fears.

itnsfr007,

How well I know that fear. I worked on fishing boats, trawlers, in New England for a couple of years.

As for the rest of it, well I have been homeless, I have been through several Hurricanes along with my wife.

I truly know what you are talking about.

Cat

Oh and Rob, I think I know what you mean, but I have never been there.
 
Losing my mind. I've always been "the brainy girl", so my relative intelligence has come to be how I define myself. The idea of dementia really frightens me. The only thing worse than losing it would be knowing I'm losing it and being unable to stop it.
 
Death.

Well, not so much death but dying alone. What I mean by that is I want some one there when my time comes to hold my hand as I pass. I don't want to be the person that they find after the fact.

Sounds kinda weird but it's the truth.
 
impressive said:
Being forgotten.


Now, see that doesn't really bother me...I've already been forgotten by my family and a few of the people I thought were my friends.


Besides...I guess I have been working the last few years to make sure that I leave a very small footprint where ever I go.
 
Losing my daughter, or her losing me.

Never being able to hold another of my own babies in my arms.

Never having the moment to take my Love into my arms, and hold her till forever.
 
I never reply to these threads with a real answer so that my fears can't be used against me (which in and of itself is a fear I suppose, but I don't know how that could be used against me, so I'm strangely at ease with people knowing that one).
 
That I'll never find happiness like the one I had again...and so will go thru the rest of my life looking back and remembering what I lost.

SG
 
There are many things, that if I think about them, I become afraid. But most of the time I don't think about them...

1) 2009 - Yes, the year

2) Iran or North Korea with a nuclear weapon

3) The internet (I don't think about it, I just use it, okay)

4) Never finding the love of my life

P.S. I totally agree with Cerise and Glynndah!
 
George W Bush. Scares me silly. No I'm not joking. That a man so self serving and lacking in social wit and intelligence is in charge of the most powerful country in teh world profoundly frightens me.
The Iraq war. That it will escalate into a world conflict. That I will see my babies sent out to be cannon fodder for some politician's ideal.
 
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I fear seeing people I love in pain and not being able to help. In some ways, it's a crippling fear. It's makes me less willing than I once was, to be fully involved with family and friends. The inevitability of loss is part of it; but dealing with loss is less complicated than being helpless in the face of someone else's grief, fear or illness.

I fear helplessness in any circumstance. (Except one. :devil: Call it therapy.)

I fear being trapped in a helpless body, unable to take care of myself, and especially being unable to communicate.
 
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If you want to see physical fear ...put a rattlesnake or a copperhead in front of you and I'll be able to solidly prove it aint just jesus that can walk on water! And sometimes it is possible to walk through the air without touching the ground for quite a ways. (My mama can attest to me being able to do that! ;) )

Emotional fear... losing my daughter, friends/family dying (after this year I am a tiny little bit protective over people and I damn sure make sure they know I love them), being stuck with no way out.
 
My ultimate fear, what I'm going to list because I have quite a number...

Not being good enough and because of that ending up all alone.
 
only_more_so said:
There are many things, that if I think about them, I become afraid. But most of the time I don't think about them...

Yes. I've always thought denial to be underrated as a defense mechanism.

Right now? Not having enough money to live comfortably when I retire (years and years away, but on the horizon).
 
rgraham666 said:
No one whose met you will forget you. You're far too much of a presence to be forgotten. :kiss:

Totally agree. :kiss:


I fear my husband's death more than anything.



Some smaller fears have been echoed here: Dementia, going blind, not being able to use my hands, being forgotten.
 
Getting to the state where I have to depend on other people for everything.

Every time I visit my sister who has severe, advanced MS and can do absolutely nothing for herself, leaves me with nightmares of being the same way.

I fear losing my physical abilities, and being locked inside a useless shell.
 
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