Continuing on from my thread about dreams for a writing piece, I'd much like to hear about your broad fears! By this I don't mean specific things, like spiders or dogs or whatever. Fears that everyone will have or would have had. Like being afraid of the dark or perhaps a monster under the bed. To be honest the more creative and unusual the better. I've got a few down, like fear of the future, death, your past, health, heart break, lonliness. I could certainly use some more suggestions.
I'm not afraid of anything broad like that, I don't think. Nothing springs to mind.
Today, I got this weird feeling of 'I DONT WANNA GET OLD!!'... My mother works in a children's nursery, and I went in to visit her today. One of the mothers there playing with her baby was younger than me. Scared the hella jeebies out of me.
Apart from that, I don't have any constant fears.
The only thing I've always feared is death.
Nothing else comes to my mind.
I'm afraid that american voters will continue to be so horridly short sighted and self serving that they will completely bankrupt the nation.
I'm afraid that when we end up going to war with china over resources, they wont have the horribly outdated equipment they have now.
I'm afraid that people will in general continue to use their brains less and less as technology increases, yet continue to breed more bastard idiot offspring.
Would anyone say people worry more about the future, or the things that hasn't happened in their past? That is to say what is more haunting:regret and mistakes that have happened to you or the unknown future?
Regret and knowing you can't alter the past would be worse than the unknown future which has infinite possibilities.
Who and what I am is a function of what has happened in my past. Since I like who I am at present, I cant say that I regret things that have happened in my past; even the things which were unpleasant at the time have generally had some sort of positive effect.
Dopplegangers and ceiling fans.
I fear being just another guy. Being average.
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My biggest fear is incompetence. In much of what I do, I have to be one of the best. Not just really good. I have to be excellent or I'm not happy with myself.
I am afraid of another economical depression.
I fear that the world will suffer greatly if we largely deplete fossil fuel resources before we develop alternative ways of powering our lifestyles. I fear this very well may occur in my lifetime.
I fear depression.
I fear Skynet.
I fear Judgement day.
I'm afraid cats has cancer.
fear of cancer is pretty broad I'd say.
I fear aging. :(
Do you mean getting old or looking old?
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Rejection.
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Actually, yeah, I'm afraid of the ones really close to me dying.
I'm not afraid of getting old, myself, but it's scary to think that when I'm old, all my favorite relatives will be dead. All four of my grandparents(three grandmas, one g-pa) are getting pretty old. I'm afraid of the **** sad times ahead of me.
If that's the case, can you imagine the feelings of someone who does dwell on appearance? :(
I can't imagine what life would be like without my mom. I don't even want to think about it.
Zombies have always scared the **** out of me for whatever reason. Less so nowadays as I've been using immersion therapy to try and get over it by playing Resident Evil and watching zombie movies.
I also relate to cats' fear of being average and every day I feel it steadily getting worse.
Speaking of fears I had a dream last night that ended with me getting stabbed in the mother ****ing throat by some Joker-esque psychopath. It was unpleasant.
Also, [quote=Kolo;809913]Rejection.
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It's even funnier because he's banned.
I fear that I'm wasting my time doing pointless ****, which can be related to fear of aging or death. That fear of waking up at the age of 30 and realizing my hopes and dreams never happened because I was too ****ing lazy.
Yeah, 30 is pretty much when I'd start my exciting adventures. Gotta get university, marriage, and all that other useless **** out of the way first.
I myself don't really fear death, because it's going to come one day and theres no point in caring. I fear more so my parents and relatives dying.
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Being in situations where I have no control over the outcome.