What is your greastest fear?

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

Either drowning or calling on the phone ?

 

[goregoregoregoregoregore]

I have too many phobias to count here. You can call me Mr Fear.
I guess a notorious one i have is this massive fear and despair upon feeling sleepy or after i try to lie down in bed(somniphobia i guess?) you can guess i have fun every night

 

[Bonkers225]

Either my loved ones, or I getting struck with cancer, or some other serious disease/illness.

 

[Gold]

I'm afraid I'll never be able to reconnect with my father but I've started accepting that's probably just my reality. For a more tangible fear, phobias and such, I'm petrified of large dogs.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Being unable to do the most basic "survival" things like eating or going to the bathroom.

 

[DeusLatom]

probably losing my wife, i put my love of humanity in her, if she dies, my care for humanity goes with her

 

[SolemnlyDoc]

That nothing I do will matter. That in a generation or two my name won't even be a blip in history and my name will be forever lost to the sands of time. Whenever I think about it too much and start to get sad, I try and remember that in a few billion years, there will be no suns left in the universe and habitation will be incredibly unlikely, so it's not like any of it matters anyway. I can't stamp my name into history any easier than I can force the stars to stop turning, so all I can change is how people feel here and now, so I try and be kind and make them happy.

 

[Mr. Daddy]

I've definitely got a lot of anxieties about things, but not a lot of things that I'd call outright fears. There's one for me though that tends to stand out. Stinging insects just destroy my brain for some reason. I can't even really pinpoint why. I've never really had a traumatic experience with wasps, hornets, bees, etc., but the amount of times I've been ended suddenly in a nightmare or dream suddenly turned nightmare by a wasp with a stinger the size of my arm is too high too count. Actually most of the time if a dream turns into a nightmare for me it almost always involves a wasp-like creature.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Picture if I become a nuclear physicist and my work later on influences weapons of mass destruction production? Wouldn't that be a nightmare? Knowing I contribute to suffering and painful death across the world?

What else? Dying without doing enough good deeds.

 

[Taukyrie]

Either my loved ones, or I getting struck with cancer, or some other serious disease/illness.

This, especially since I don't think either me or my boyfriend would be able to handle it mentally. (His mother is in remission right now and hopefully stays that way)

But I'd also add dying in a serious accident as well.

Also getting pushed out of my friend group or being abandoned over something I didn't actually do because someone spread rumors about me.

 

[Yukyon]

Death.

 

[Somnia]

Growing old. I'm about to turn 30 and I already feel the massive difference when compared to my early 20s and teens. It's truly a shame we can't maintain that state of potential and health forever.

Having finite time and essentially having to waste half of it in anywhere from suboptimal to complete dogshit health depending on a ton of factors that you do or don't control is terrifying, especially when if you aren't rich you're spending most of those best years struggling.

 

[RageBurner]

Growing old. I'm about to turn 30 and I already feel the massive difference when compared to my early 20s and teens. It's truly a shame we can't maintain that state of potential and health forever.

Having finite time and essentially having to waste half of it in anywhere from suboptimal to complete dogshit health depending on a ton of factors that you do or don't control is terrifying, especially when if you aren't rich you're spending most of those best years struggling.

Sad but true, always swimming upstream.

 

[Wechseln]

Disease: Death is certain but knowing how and when will it come is hell. Rotting alive, being a burden for those around, the certainty of there not being a future left, the fear of endangering those who care with said disease and/or having the certainty that you are putting them through terrible pain and sadness as they mourn you in life.

Disabilty: My whole life revolves around what I love, if I can't do or serve for what I love then living is meaningless.

The Sea: Freaks me out. Moist.

 

[RageBurner]

Disease: Death is certain but knowing how and when will it come is hell. Rotting alive, being a burden for those around, the certainty of there not being a future left, the fear of endangering those who care with said disease and/or having the certainty that you are putting them through terrible pain and sadness as they mourn you in life.

Disabilty: My whole life revolves around what I love, if I can't do or serve for what I love then living is meaningless.

The Sea: Freaks me out. Moist.

Very true fears. I always regarded the sea as a world within the world, all too different.

 

[tenkai star]

Growing old. I'm about to turn 30 and I already feel the massive difference when compared to my early 20s and teens. It's truly a shame we can't maintain that state of potential and health forever.

Having finite time and essentially having to waste half of it in anywhere from suboptimal to complete dogshit health depending on a ton of factors that you do or don't control is terrifying, especially when if you aren't rich you're spending most of those best years struggling.

I remember staring at the clock right before my 30th, hoping someone would ask me how old I was so I could say I'm 29 one more time. Once it passed I got over it pretty quickly. Gotta rip the bandaid off.

I do understand what you mean about health though. I always thought shin splints were a myth until this year, I get it now! I know that's nothing compared to what many people go through. Either way, we have a lot of life left and I appreciate it more as I get older

 

[Somnia]

I remember staring at the clock right before my 30th, hoping someone would ask me how old I was so I could say I'm 29 one more time. Once it passed I got over it pretty quickly. Gotta rip the bandaid off.

I do understand what you mean about health though. I always thought shin splints were a myth until this year, I get it now! I know that's nothing compared to what many people go through. Either way, we have a lot of life left and I appreciate it more as I get older

Yea, the 30 itself doesn't really bother me anymore, its moreso just sad that I more or less wastwd my 20s tanking so many opportunities. Feels like I have a good head on my shoulders and I've set myself up for success but now the "best years" are behind me.

Imma enjoy the next 40+ years I got, just wish our bodies didn't age like they do lol

 

[tenkai star]

Yea, the 30 itself doesn't really bother me anymore, its moreso just sad that I more or less wastwd my 20s tanking so many opportunities. Feels like I have a good head on my shoulders and I've set myself up for success but now the "best years" are behind me.

Imma enjoy the next 40+ years I got, just wish our bodies didn't age like they do lol

Oh I feel you man. Many of us spend our youth assuming that life will fall into place naturally over time, so we don't take matters into our own hands and make it happen. Then you blink and it's been years and nothing has changed lol. But things are working out nicely for me now and it sounds like for you too, so it turned out to be okay.

I do have nostalgia for earlier eras in my life, but these still feel like my best years in a different way. More money to spend and more time to enjoy things with family.

Lately at work I've been listening to police interrogations for horrible crimes and stories about super degenerate online gamblers and it reinforces my belief that we did alright for ourselves lmao

 

[Yousef]

My backlog.

 

[Somnia]

I do have nostalgia for earlier eras in my life, but these still feel like my best years in a different way.

100%!

 

[medisinn]

Yea, the 30 itself doesn't really bother me anymore, its moreso just sad that I more or less wastwd my 20s tanking so many opportunities. Feels like I have a good head on my shoulders and I've set myself up for success but now the "best years" are behind me.

Imma enjoy the next 40+ years I got, just wish our bodies didn't age like they do lol

I felt the same way, I still do really and I'm closer to 40 than 30. I wasted many chances and opportunities either doing the wrong thing, or losing by doing nothing at all. The experience isn't wasted as long as you learn lessons from it, and it sounds like you've done that yourself. Who says your 20s are your best years? Maybe our Strength and Constitution stats start going down, but Wisdom goes up, and maybe Intelligence and Charisma too if we're fortunate.

Death, mostly. I'm better about it but ever since I was a child, I'd either be woken up from sleep or be almost asleep when the thought of my own mortality would cross my mind and keep me up for a long time with anxiety. The thought of ceasing to be and no longer existing is inevitable, and terrifying at the same time. At the same time, it is indeed inevitable, and in theory once you aren't alive, your worries and anxieties would also go away. I'm hopeful there is an afterlife, but unsure, so that brings me no peace. It's better now, but it still catches me occasionally at night.

Otherwise, I'm unsure. All the things I feared when I was younger have mostly come true. I've worked shitty, passionless jobs my whole adult life, never really done much in any creative outlet, I've been mostly single, never really been in shape, and barely feel more financially secure than when I worked part-time retail years ago. Still, I'm slowly making peace with it all. I suppose my biggest fear would be anyone in my direct family or my really close friends and loved ones dying or going through something traumatic. Again, an inevitability at some point, so it is what it is, all the more reason to make the time you do have with the people you cherish count.

Oh yeah, and heights, drowning in the deep sea, and dying helplessly in a cave deep in the earth. Thankfully, those things are mostly easy to avoid by just not going to those places.

 

[Gorse]

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always had this overwhelming fear of being crushed or constrained to death. On a weekly basis, I get nightmares where I’m trapped in tiny spaces on my stomach beneath something — floorboards, concrete, networks of pipes, etc. (My personal favourite was being trapped under the deck of a sinking ship while it filled up with water.) I’d be a horrible BDSM partner. (The B part of that culture legitimately terrifies me.)

I’ve recently been hearing a lot about cave divers and people who go spelunking in tight, highly-compact holes in the earth, with nothing but miles of rock and darkness surrounding them. (And sometimes, they’re UNDERWATER!) I think those people are absolutely fucking insane.

 

[Wechseln]

I’ve recently been hearing a lot about cave divers and people who go spelunking in tight, highly-compact holes in the earth, with nothing but miles of rock and darkness surrounding them. (And sometimes, they’re UNDERWATER!) I think those people are absolutely fucking insane.

I recently learned about John Edward Jones...

Straight up mental sickness, I simply don't get how could someone do that to themselves.

 

[Hotwer]

Fear of what's next after death. I know what will happen as per my religion, but it still scares the heck out of me. Straight up having an existential crisis kind of fear, its why I try not to think about it too much, but sometimes it still crept up to me.

 

[Darth Vader]

Lord Vader fears nothing...









.....for he has already lost everything.