What's your biggest fear ?

[meowington]

Just wondering, if you'd like to share what scares you the most ? I mean in the broadest sense : from spiders to fear of giving public speeches or fear of becoming ill.
I'm aware this might be a bit personal. I'm aware you might have multiple phobia's, small or big. But what is overall the thing(s) you fear most ?

So here I go : I'm particulary afraid of being publicly humiliated somehow, somewhere.

 

[Yama]

Losing contact with the people I love.

 

[Cellmold]

Cheesy mode activated:

I'm scared of being scared, giving into anxiety and the consequences of doing so. That and the gnawing reality that if I continue to look for confidence based on a foundation of someone, something or somewhere, then I will always be looking for an entity or idea to guide me, instead of making my own ideas and standing on my own feet and responsibilities. With that would come an ever bigger gap between the whole (that we were never really separate from in the first place) and the concept of a self that makes one fall deeper into the trap.

I also fear getting caught up in the emotional rat race of being too absorbed into social normality, and the obligations (false, although are any of them true?) that it creates.

Also: Being thought of as pretentious in the most superficial sense. But then, the truth is always scary.

 

[RedAmazoneFriendZone]

I could be afraid of losing my integrity and freedom but I'm just a wild cat

 

[Cellmold]

I could be afraid of losing my integrity and freedom but I'm just a wild cat

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You don't fear the friend zone?

 

[RedAmazoneFriendZone]

You don't fear the friend zone?

If you're a mouse with a long tail, the cat I am fears the friend zone very much

 

[Cellmold]

If you're a mouse with a long tail, the cat I am fears the friend zone very much

I don't know how it works. People are weird.

 

[RedAmazoneFriendZone]

I don't know how it works. People are weird.

Now you know you are afraid of french extravagance

 

[miss fortune]

Plants with fleshy stems and large leaves... the idea of them touching me is terrifying

 

[SpankyMcFly]

The universal fear, of my life coming to an end. The little black death that most of us keep repressed, ensuring psychological equinimity and sureness of action. No matter how much I try it's gonna get me at an unknown time & manner. All those other fears are miniscule.

 

[Ingrid in grids]

Oooh. I have thought about this before. My biggest fear is the following scenario:

Your loved ones, and everyone who knows you, all find out you have done the most morally repulsive thing imaginable. Everyone abandons you and you are beyond forgiveness. The knowledge of what you have done is so widespread that you cannot move away and start a new life.

I've thought about this scenario in terms of if I had actually done the morally repulsive thing, or if I had only been framed for it and there was no chance of setting the record straight. I can't decide which is worse.

I'm also not sure what the morally repulsive action is.

 

[SpankyMcFly]

Oooh. I have thought about this before. My biggest fear is the following scenario:

Your loved ones, and everyone who knows you, all find out you have done the most morally repulsive thing imaginable. Everyone abandons you and you are beyond forgiveness. The knowledge of what you have done is so widespread that you cannot move away and start a new life.

I've thought about this scenario in terms of if I had actually done the morally repulsive thing, or if I had only been framed for it and there was no chance of setting the record straight. I can't decide which is worse.

I'm also not sure what the morally repulsive action is.

Reminds me of The Scarlet Letter.

 

[Ingrid in grids]

Reminds me of The Scarlet Letter.

I haven't read it, but I don't think the morally repulsive thing would be related to adultery. It would have to be like, abusing children or puppies.

 

[SpankyMcFly]

I haven't read it, but I don't think the morally repulsive thing would be related to adultery. It would have to be like, abusing children or puppies.

Right. Me either, too common What I meant by the reference was the whole process of ostraization along with the 'crime' being visible for all to see.

 

[meowington]

I quit halfway through the scarlet letter. Still curious how it ends

 

[ceecee]

Centipedes, man. Horrible, disgusting, terrifying and the only thing that would actually get me close to a paralyzing panic attack.

 

[ChocolateMoose123]

Being tortured

 

[iwakar]

Irrelevance.

 

[á´…eparted]

Disease, sickness, being trapped in your own body unable to communicate with the outside world. It is a fate worth than death.

 

[cascadeco]

Yeah, to copy MDP, being tortured definitely ranks up there.

But probably too it's just having absolutely no one in my late years/leading up to death.

But no, perhaps actually worse would be inability to move. Also blindness. Because everything I find joy in involves using my eyes and moving my body.