What is your biggest fear?

[rhawn]

are you deaf? blind? paraplegic?

then you have no idea what these would be like. for me, not being able to listen to music would be awful.

I'm not completely deaf. I'm have a severe hearing impairment in which I can hear less than 50% of the tones of the average person. I can mostly hear very low tones such as the revving of an engine and scraping sounds best. I certainly feel I am fortunate not to have the "disabilities" that I mentioned. Every year, when I go to my audiologist for my exam my hearing is worse. I expect I will be, for all intents and purposes, deaf before I am dead. Notice the tag "Otic Invalid".

I know what "its like".

 

[Annex]

I would hate not being able to communicate with people unless they knew sign language. Thats got to be rough. Plus going to a sport and hearing the crowd go crazy is awesome. or hearing someone who can sing really well, or play an instrument well.

i would miss my eyesight when it came to taking pictures, but i could still read, and get around somewhat.

You're forgetting about reading lips. Given it doesnt work in the dark or if you arent looking at the person but it beats only using sign language.

I think it would be worse to be blind. If I was deaf I could still drive, play video games, do my job (impaired a little, maybe) , etc.

 

[GenMarshall]

Fear of approaching a woman I find attractive

 

[soul_warrior]

* my curiosity
* the love of my fiance

everything else, i can control by being careful, or avoid.
if i cant, then i dont have a say anyway... so why worry?

 

[holy king]

biting into an egg just to find out there's a chicken embryo in it.

and looking into a mirror and seeing something that isnt supposed to be behind me.

 

[classical_hero]

Firsts. Every time I do something for the first time, I am so nervous that i often make mistakes, and thi s is why I am still a single guy at 30, since I have trouble making the fist step with women I like. Others include Spiders.

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

The fear that I've already found her, but that there's nothing I can do to make it work.

 

[RedRalph]

I have many fears, I don't know what's the worst. I might say having a wasted life and failing at everything I try but that's already happened.

cheer up feller

 

[RedRalph]

Being horribly wrong about what awaits me beyond life.

EDIT: As a related but separate fear: there being no afterlife, and my consciousness simply ceasing to exist. Especially if I died suddenly, but even if I died knowing I was dying. I can't deal with the idea of being dead forever.

Yeah, this is it for me too.... the idea is paralysingly frightening to me

 

[HannibalBarka]

My biggest fears:
1. losing a kid
2. seeing one of my kids completly waste his life (drug addict, deep depression, etc)
3. me losing my life and thus endagering my kids future and not seeing them grow
4. losing my wife, again more because my kid would grow without their mom.
5. the only nightmare I have is to be buried alife

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Things that cause me worry or anxiety:
Never living up to my potential (I am well on my way)
Losing the love of my fiance, or getting divorced someday
Something happening to my children (whom I do not have yet, it still terrifies me)

I can honestly say I am not afraid of death, regardless of what happens (or doesn't happen) afterwards, although dying painfully doesn't sound very pleasant, and as I get closer I may change my view on the matter.

Things that frighten me:
Certain organisms that I won't name here because I don't trust all of you not to post giant pictures of them
I am not afraid of spiders, but recognizing that some people are - and that they can't help it - I think they are kind of cool. Even if they do eat with their feet.

 

[flyingchicken]

It be Death.