What do you fear?

[Emerita]

as much as I like being single again..... A Mr. Right wouldn't be so bad...lol

[himiko sabbrawrra]

awww.

[Emerita]

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[marajademms]

Okay, I know I'm far and few between with posts out here, but I'm game on this one.

My fears, as irrational as they are:
Spiders
Airplanes/helicopters/blimps/etc. (hard to like them when you always dream about them crashing) I won't even look up in they sky when one goes by unless I'm under a cover of some kind.
Most bugs: the bigger they are, the more I freak
Death by suffocation/drowning (when I go, I want it to be fast and painless, not a long, drawn-out death)
Loss of fingers/toes/limbs/etc.
Paralysis
Going blind
I realize these are selfish fears, considering I saw many other posts had concerns for others. But, these are really what I fear more than anything any given day.

[Emerita]

actually your fears are rational for many of us. I do have a fear of suffocation..... and a fear of falling......

[Leda EmBorr]

true... drowning is a biggie

I'm afraid of getting arthritis. My mom has it bad.

My biggest fear of them all is of any of my kids getting kidnapped.

I'd take a horrid painful death for myself over that.

Knock wood

[himiko sabbrawrra]

corran24 said:

Hmmm...what do I fear? I really don't know. I guess I don't have any fears. I mean I am not afraid of heights or small spaces, or big crowds, or spiders and bugs and snakes, or antique furniture or clowns (my sister is scared to death of clowns) or things that are really horrific. So I don't have any fears like that. If anything, I guess I could say my only fear would be fear itself.

When you think of it that's everyones...

[Emerita]

I agree about the clowns. I hate clowns....not afraid of them though...I haven't liked them since my Dad took me to see RIngling Bros. Circus many years ago.......ok....many, many, many years ago...lol....I never thought they were funny......

[Shoshana Win]

ledaemborr said:

My biggest fear of them all is of any of my kids getting kidnapped.

I'd take a horrid painful death for myself over that.

Knock wood

I actually WAS kidnapped, thankfully not for very long. Apparently I screamed my head off all the way down the mall, and then lady who nabbed me dropped me in a fountain, where I happily played until I was retrieved. I can only imagine how my mother felt!! That incident has left me with a fear of kidnapping...not of someone kidnapping me again, I was too young to remember the incident, but of someone kidnapping my nieces or my own kids (when I am finally lucky enough to have some!). I had a HORRIBLE dream one night that my nieces were kidnapped. I have already warned Solorad about how I will be with our kids.

As for other fears...

I am afraid of the dark, unless my husband or dogs are around.

I have an irrational fear of monsters, like Dracula, even though I know they don't exist.

Heights, and tied in with that is a fear of flying. I think it's more of the crashing part that I am afraid of .

Getting motion sickness, because I am very susceptible to it and it usually leads to me throwing up, which I dread.

My house catching on fire while I'm not at home, and my dogs dying in the fire .

ROACHES...yuck! Most other incects don't bother me, unless they are flying. I like spiders, but I don't like to touch them.

Failure. It haunts me every day, in every experiment I do. But I have come you realize that failure is a part of life. You win some, and you lose some. It's what you do after a failure that is important.

Public speaking. I have to do this a lot because of school/work. I can handle it now, but it is still tough.

Solorad dying in a motorcycle accident. Or really, dying period .

My brother becoming completely debilitated due to his MS. That's why I am going to school! And my mother having to get a liver transplant because of her autoimmune disease. Also why I am going to school!