What is your worst fear?

women

hmm, it seems my answer is too short. didn't realize it had to be 10 characters in length. so I will randomly drone on and on to make sure it is long enough. that shoudl be enough.
 
Losing my job when I'm close to retirement because the compnay doesn't want to incur the costs, or along those lines, getting laid off and replaced by a grad student who's willing to work for half the money when I have a mortgage, kids college, and retirement to think about.
 
My worst fear is to slowly lose my mind, where I know I'm slowly losing my mind. For example getting schizophrenia, dementia, or alzheimers. That is seriously my worst fear.

sometimes I worry about that. I wouldn't call it a fear, more of a worry. I'm afraid I might go crazy. People call me crazy alot, and it bothers me.
 
I'm ... afraid. I'm not sure of what ...

Other than that:
- i'm afraid i'll never be healthy again
- drowning/chocking to death
 
Failure.

Particularly failure caused by a combination of my medical problems, and bone-headed administrators putting me in an impossible position (e.g. demanding I do three modules from school of Chemistry in a semester when the only two I am qualified for have the lectures in the same timeslots). I had a panic attack - you know, heart racing, vision greying out, etc - when I realised that was what they were insisting I do. Then I did some more Biosciences ones instead.

Oh, and consequences of failure - living at home with the parents until they kick me out, living on the dole and minimum wage at a series of dead-end jobs in a hateful hovel, from not having a degree. Always being in debt and never having anything nice.
 
The 10 character minimum on posts! Truly terrifying!
 
sometimes I worry about that. I wouldn't call it a fear, more of a worry. I'm afraid I might go crazy. People call me crazy alot, and it bothers me.

The closer you are to crazy the less chance you have of going insane, ever heard that, it's like when you are close to crazy it takes an extra amount of insanity to shake you, but if your ordinary and conformist, then it's easier for your world to be shaken. Eccentricity guards against insanity, unless you get something physiological like schizophrenia then your screwed
 
Getting a disease I can't cure myself.
 
Fire and crowds.

We had a minor housefire when I was about three, and it terrified me for years. I'm a bit more rational about it now, but untended fires still scare the crap out of me. I do leave burning candles unattended, though, as long as they're well-contained and far from obnoxiously flammable stuff.

My fear of large crowds of people is newer, probably developed in high school. I do really poorly in malls and at concerts and things like that. I can't relax in a restaurant unless I can see the exit (a tinge of claustrophobia? I don't mind enclosed spaces if there aren't many people in them.) I can't handle riding in crowded elevators. However, alcohol is very effective at allaying this fear, so bars and other places with margaritas are tolerable.
 
Spiders and flying insects that sting.

Oh, and the phrase "Mr. Speaker, The President of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton" by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives on the evening of the State of the Union address.
 
Being underwater in murky, muddy water with giant leach-like predators.
 
Dying, never having done anything to make a difference (for the better).
 
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