What is your worst fear? (page 4)

LB

So many fears here revolve around death one way or another. Fear of losing a child or a loved one. After taking a little class that taught you to deal with grief I realized that the one grief that no one really recovers from is the loss of a child. So I'm not surprised to see that one listed here often.

I must be a selfish bastard. My fears center around my not getting what I hope to get. I want to live on maui eventually and I fear I may not. I want to fufill several goals I have. So it's about me me me.

But I do have a fear that bad things could happen to people I care about. We do live in a violent world. I've lost loved ones to violence many times. Unrequited revenge is tough to live with. I guess I'm not the most forgiving man on the planet.

BoozeRunner

My worst fear would have to be growing old alone. I'd like to get married again and have a kidlet or 2, but the companionship is what I desire most.

Boozy

Xandria

Okay here it goes. My grandmother told me to live in fear is not really to live at all. SO I try not to worry or fear over things that I have no control over. ( it is not easy believe me).

The one thing I fear or worry over is going through another death or have someone dying period either of cancer, heart failure, sucide etc. Over the course of Six years I have gone through my uncle ( Cancer),my cousin's sucide, my grandmother's death (mother's side), my mother (Cancer), my other grandmother ( cancer) and my mother-in-law ( Cancer). Nor do I want to die of Cancer or a lingering disease. I want it quick painless and not know where it came from.

I have had enough of the guy in black that creeps up in the dark and takes one's breath away. In a blink of an eye or with a rattling sigh.

I force myself not to worry about that. I simply have made a will, have my wishes down and leave all the rest to the winds.

I much rather live my life. Than live in fear of my life or someone else's being snuffed. That way if something does happen we can say at least he/she lived a great life. An can go with out regretting the things they have not done or feel robbed like my mom did.. b/c she decided to live her life as she did.

Annnnnyyyyyy way enough of this subject for me for now.

X

animal

As I was gonna say... why live in fear? It demeans life.

Live like today is the last day of your life, and enjoy it. One of our sayings is "Ride it like you stole it", and thats how to live IMHO.

Animal

Inquiry

What an interesting topic...

I found that as I age, my fears change... I used to fear the death of my child... and still do, but I know I could survive it... sounds colder than it really is, I adore my son... but I watched my grandma go through my father's death and my cousin died very young... I've known friends who lost their children too... actually.. I've known too many... that's really sad... but I know I would survive... I don't think I would be very happy, but, I think I could get along with the wonderful memories I have of him and I would be comforted by knowing I did absolutely the best I possibly could.. and he turned out so much better than I could expect... he's a wonderful son.. reallly... he just forgets to call sometimes... lol (by the by.. he's almost grown now... and as a parent you have to get used to the thought of them taking risks... it's a training ground... and it really does thicken the skin... I've spent many a night wondering where he is cause he just forgot to phone and imagined all sorts of terrible things happening to him... it's like the body just won't let me go there anymore.....*sigh* )

I think my big fear now is to become mentally incapacitated somehow...ie: alzheimers, huntingtons, et al... and becoming a burden to my family....now that's a truly disturbing thought....

ewwww... I'm gonna stop thinking about this now... not a great thought to start my day with...

Inq of the now needing the comfort class....

Hmmm

Besides the normal ones involving gruesome death, my biggest fear is that Gangs Of New York will win a bunch of Academy Awards this year.

Francois

Having a serious stroke or other illness that failed to be fatal.

francois

xjw_b12

Hey Scully. Nice to see you " up and at em "

My worst fear.....waking up and discovering myself in a freakin KH

Seriously. My worst fear would be to lose my best friend, my wife. She IS the better half, and I would be lost without her.

Swan

I have a similar worst fear. To somehow be pulled back into the borg would be one of my greatest fears. I don't know why, because it isn't rational, knowing what I know now, but phobias are seldom rational. I have nightmares about this.

Tammy

jgnat

There was single woman at our church who died tragically. She was one of those "career spinsters". She dedicated her life to children in our Sunday School. Church was her entire life. She had health problems, we all knew about it. She had a colostomy, and had to go in for corrective surgery, and was home the next day. Something must have gone wrong, because she fainted and hit the floor alone in her apartment. Her brother found her body several days later.

I don't think my pastor ever really forgave himself. We were her family, and not one of us had thought to check on her?

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