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We all have one thing, either in the forefront of our minds, or deeply buried, that we fear more than anything else.  I'm not talking about things that make us nervous or jittery.  I mean, what terrifies the living daylights out of you?  Is your greatest fear something that is likely to happen to you in your lifetime?  How do you deal with that fear?  I'll be back later to share mine, after some of you have shared yours. 


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  • Rockerchic said on Jan 20, 2007....
    I have two.

    My biggest family fear is losing my child via any means; abduction, drowning, death, drugs.  He is my world!  I couldn't live without him.

    My biggest personal fear is falling to my death.  It is something you can see coming at you and you have no way of stopping it.  And depending on from what height I fall, I may have quite a bit of time to contemplate my impending death.  If it ever happens, I hope I have a massive heart attack immediately after I launch. So I try to avoid high, open air places.  I can ride a roller coaster and be in an airplane but to stand outside on top of a tall building or at the edge of a cliff, forget it!  I tried to overcome this fear once by signing up for a parachute jump.  I chickened out before I even got to the airport!  I had the biggest panic attack ever!
  • beyondtheveil said on Jan 20, 2007....
    kruu- Aside from something happening to someone in my immediate family, just talking about me personally, I've always thought the worst thing would be to be very badly burned-and live. The second would to be left quadraplegic. 
     
    I can't think of a fear that I live with daily. But when I do get fearful, I worry first and then try to analyze it. That sometimes shows the fear & worry is unfounded.
  • kruuyai said on Jan 20, 2007....

    wow... you've both touched on what I was going to say.  Mine is burning to death (maybe I was burned at the stake in a past life?).  But as I was thinking about it earlier this afternoon, I was thinking about the victims of the World Trade Center and how some of them had to make a quick choice between being burned to death or jumping to their death.  A lot of them chose to jump, and I was thinking I was right there with them.  I absolutely would have jumped to avoid the flames.  But then, I started to imagine myself making that jump, and the incredible fear I would have to endure, and in the case of such a tall building, that fear might last for quite a while... maybe I fear fear more than anything.  I still think I would jump.  My fear of fire goes way back.  We had so many fire drills and visits from firemen when I was a little girl in grammar school, that I was even afraid to light a candle in Sunday school... I'd get knots in my stomach.  I don't have any problem lighting matches, candles, or even campfires now, but I sure wouldn't want to be burned in one.  I'm not afraid to die.  I'm just afraid to suffer agonizing physical pain (it seems that I can endure a lot of emotional pain).  But that brings up your point, beyondtheveil, that surviving a bad burn and living would be even worse than dying from it, because you'd have to relive that hell every day for a long time until you finally healed.  That's my worst physical fear. 

    I used to think that my greatest fear was sinking into a bad depression and never being able to climb back out of it.  I don't know which would be worse.  I was reading about a burning last night in a novel, and that's what got me to thinking about this.  Do you think that the anticipation of something happening, in other words, the fear itself, can be worse than having the thing actually happen?

  • momsrock said on Jan 20, 2007....

    I also have two. My first one is being strangled. It terrifies me to the point where I can't stand anything even brushing across the front of my neck. I turtle necks and scarves are always worn loosely so they never touch my skin. :)

    My second one is losing control of my car and ending up in water. I start flipping out if we are driving close to a river or lake. I used to carry the window punch and seatbelt cutter in my glove box until my oldest cut the straps for in his brothers carseat...."Mommy! I set him free!!" Thank God the opening to the blade is only wide enough to slip over a seatbelt and they couldn't have cut themselves...but I did have to by a new carseat.

  • dailyachesandpains said on Jan 20, 2007....

    Hey Kruu!

    I'll keep this one short...nap time for Daughter.

    Aside from something happening to HER, my biggest fear is "Dooms Day!"  I fear that I'm the one that will survive it and that'd suck!

    Daily

  • LeMorteNera said on Jan 20, 2007....
    My biggest fear is death. I don't believe in life after death or anything like that so just the thought of everything just... stopping forever scares me alot.
    When i was younger I used to think about it more. It petrified me because it's something you can never escape, you can only come closer to and it's always there, no matter what you do. What if we have our lives and then spend eternity in nothingness? But you can't be aware of it cause you're dead. I don't know but i'm not going to think about it anymore.
  • beyondtheveil said on Jan 20, 2007....
    kruu- From your comment(maybe I was burned at the stake in a past life?). Could you be Joan of Arc reincarnated? If you are, you're my hero.
  • mobil said on Jan 20, 2007....
    Hey kru; of course the fear of something happening to loved ones,
    I don't think that's what you meant.
     
    I fear surprising a female grizzly bear with cubs when walking,
    hiking or hunting.
     
    I always carry a firearm, but I fear it would not pass muster in that
    situation. Being mauled and eaten alive, smelling the foul breath
    as it was happening. This is horrifying to me.
     
    Though, I love grizzly bears and seeing them is one of my greatest
    treats. Weird huh?
  • gingersoul said on Jan 20, 2007....

    My biggest fear is remaining paralized.

    Not being able to touch anymore, not hugging, not running, not walking, not living any of the amazing small actions the we take for granted each single day.

    Being dependent and being stuck in that bed for the rest of my life.

    I am not scared of death. But i am scared of the pain before my death....i dont want to die with the conscience to die. When you are dead death is not there with you, when you are alive again death is no there. So in the end me and death will meet only for a nanosecond. What is beyond death is a mistery for everybody so i dont carry any fear for that. It will be what it will be.

    But the pain can last for one life. And the conscience of an imminent death is unbearable.

    Kruu....maybe you were a witch, like me......and they burned us alive...lol.. 

  • mom said on Jan 20, 2007....
    MY biggest fear is heights.  It scares me when someone is way up high.  Another fear is water, deep water.
  • kruuyai said on Jan 20, 2007....

    momsrock:  If it weren't so potentially dangerous, that would be a really funny story (about your son setting the other one "free")  I hope you'll forgive me if I smiled over that one anyway.  I'll bet looking into some guidelines on what to do if your car landed in water would go a long way toward calming that fear.  I doubt if it would eliminate it, but you might be able to breathe easier in some of those driving situations.  I tend to panic if I'm in the passenger's seat on a mountain road with a really steep dropoff... doesn't matter if there's water or not... but when I'm driving, I feel okay... I'm in control (usually).

    daily: 

  • kruuyai said on Jan 20, 2007....
    daily:  see, this is why I break my comments up.... they keep getting truncated.  Anyway, that would be horrible to be the last person on earth, wouldn't it?  What would you do for entertainment?  You'd have to sit around and read all the old posts on soulcast.  And to make it last, you'd have to read every single comment.  And, of course, you'd want to comment on most of them yourself, but there wouldn't be anyone to read or respond to your comments.  I think that's the definition of hell.  :)
  • mom said on Jan 20, 2007....
    If I was the last person on earth, I would go looting and then lay down and take a nap :)
  • kruuyai said on Jan 20, 2007....
    LeMorteNera:  How interesting that you chose a name that means "the black death."  I used to believe, like you, that when you die, that's it... just nothing.  And I went through a period of years where I thought about the inevitability of my own demise on a daily basis... usually right before I went to sleep.  Somewhere along the line, probably because I simply cannot imagine an end to my own consciousness, I changed what I believe.  Of course, my believing one thing or another doesn't make it true.  And I'm still not sure if I believe that our consciousness remains as a discrete entity, or whether our energy gets diffused into several other beings... but I do believe that our energy goes on somehow (I guess that's the scientist in me), and that is probably got me to stop obsessing about death.  I think, in the end, we all believe what we choose to believe, and maybe, in some way, we create our own reality by what we choose to believe. I'm glad to hear that you don't think about it as much as you used to.  There's not much point in worrying about something we can't change.  (Did I just contradict myself there?)
  • dailyachesandpains said on Jan 20, 2007....

    Kruu:  I would think that I'd have to be smart and re-invent everything, lol.  But only for me!  I know I would be saddened by the loss of my entire family.  I know seeing dead people everywhere would totally kill me!  Watching the limited coverage of Katrina aftermath had me in a state I couldn't describe.  I feel for all those people that had to see what they saw!

    Ginger:  That's a fear I have too.  Just the thought of it sends chills up my spine.  I'm going to take my meds....starting to lose it here, lol!

    Mom:  Lay down and take a nap after looting?  LMAO!

    Daily

  • kruuyai said on Jan 20, 2007....

    beyond:  lol  Believe me, I'm nobody's hero.  I think gingersoul got it right. I was probably just some nasty old witch!  :)

    mobil: I can understand that one.  I actually don't go camping in bear territory anymore (and I never did it in grizzly territory).  When I was in geology field camp in Idaho during college, the prof was always warning us about not getting between a cub and its mother.  Then, one day, we were on a group reconnaisance, and we saw a cub on the other end of the valley for us... but the worst thing was... we didn't see the mother.  That, of course, meant that we could be between her and the cub.  I was amazed (and really pissed off) that the prof (a militaristic, alcoholic old geologist) didn't let us haul ass out of there and just kept pointing out the geology as if nothing were amiss (and nobody in the group had a firearm).  That was one of the scarier moments of my life.

  • kruuyai said on Jan 20, 2007....

    ginger:  That is really a fascinating point that you bring up about death meeting us only for a nanosecond.  I never thought about it before, but I guess it's true that it takes only an instant to die.  Hmmm.  For myself, I think I would want to die with consciousness.  I would just want it to be without pain.  I'm much more afraid of pain than of dying.  But if I had a terminal illness, I would want to know, so that I could prepare myself mentally, emotionally and spiritually, and take care of any unfinished business.  Of course, I wouldn't mind dying in my sleep.  (I would just want to know ahead of time that death was imminent).

    When I was walking home from the streetcar stop tonight, I was thinking about this post, and I think that I also have a great fear of wasting my life.  Or maybe not fear exactly (I mean, it doesn't scare me like the thought of being burned alive), but I worry about it a LOT.  I think that our most important task in life is to prepare ourselves for death, which for me, means striving for spiritual enlightenment (which can take on many forms).  But goddess knows I haven't made much movement in that direction.

  • kruuyai said on Jan 20, 2007....

    mom: Boy, THAT would be one shop til you drop extravaganza, wouldn't it?  Think of all the cool stuff you could find.  I always shop in second hand shops anyway, so I would be in seventh heaven.  Hey, I see your Psycho Woman post down on the related posts spot... I've gotta go check that out.

    daily:  wow, any time I've imagined being the last person on earth, I never pictured dead bodies.  Goes to show you what an idealist I am.  Did you ever read that story by Ray Bradbury where this guy thinks he's the last person on earth, but he's not sure, so he keeps randomly punching in phone numbers all over the place, just hoping he'll find someone.  But he never gets an answer.  And then one day, his phone rings, and it's a woman who also thought she might be the last person on earth.  She talks his ears off, and he can't stand her, so he moves far, far away from his telephone.  :)  With my luck, I'd be one of the last two people on earth, and I'd find out that the other one is Fritz!

  • mom said on Jan 20, 2007....
    Kruu and Daily, yeah it would exhaust me.  I get my clothes from Value Village, I look like a bag lady most of the time.  My kids get the cool new stuff but for me if I spend more than 99 cents for a pair of jeans I feel like I am spending too much.
     
    Kruu that is funny about the dead people and Fritt.  Well I figure if it was caused by Nuclear War, then everything would be cooked and ready to eat unless it turned out to be like on Resident Evil, then that would not be cool,  I don't want to share my looted shit with them.
  • kruuyai said on Jan 20, 2007....

    mom:  LOL  ... cooked and ready to eat.... well, I nuke my food all the time now, so I guess what's the difference?  You'll have to fill me in on Resident Evil.  I never saw that one.

  • mommyof2 said on Jan 20, 2007....
    1st is something happening to my kids....not afraid of death seen too much...creepy crawly things are the worst..
  • Jenna said on Jan 20, 2007....
    I pride myself in having no fear... but I have had a reoccuring dream this past year.  I am on a cliff and falling...I have recently discovered a fear of heights....where one never existed before. I am asleep and then awake out of breath because I am falling....I guess it is because I feel I have no control in my life.  I hate the fear....
     
    You all write about the fear of death...have not gone there yet... guess that will come someday.
     
    For now... I try to fight the fear...
  • secretlife said on Jan 20, 2007....
    aside from losing the kids-  for me personally, my greatest fear is a long drawn-out sickness where i become unable to care for myself...like a death from cancer.
     
  • MissMimi said on Jan 20, 2007....
    Kruu, my biggest fear is water. I am terrified of drowning, or even being in water over my head.
    If I may, I'd like to comment on what ginger said about being paralyzed. Ginger, my husband's best friend is a quadriplegic. He spends most of his time in a hospital bed placed near a picture window in his home. He can't put his arms around me, yet I feel warmly hugged by his beautiful spirit whenever I am around him. I have absolutely no doubt that even if you were only able to blink your eyes, people would feel the warmth of your hug when they look in your eyes. {{{hug}}}
  • momsrock said on Jan 20, 2007....
    Kruu, I had to wait for someone to bring me a new car seat.... and during that wait, the more I thought about it...the funnier it became. :)
  • GrapeKoolaid said on Jan 20, 2007....
    one word:  Birds.  
  • MissMimi said on Jan 20, 2007....
    Grape, my sister is terrified of birds, especially large flocks of them. Ever since she saw the Alfrd Hitchcock movie of the same name.
  • GrapeKoolaid said on Jan 20, 2007....
    eep...  It's their reptilian claws and their beady eyes....  What are they planning....?

    They just creep me out.  Large groups of anything(ants, cows, people) freak me out, but birds are just scary.  It's all the flapping that I find unsettling....  I was attacked by a seagull and a goose on separate occasions, and now, I just freeze up near them... 

    eep...  Just thinking about them gives me the willies. 
  • gingersoul said on Jan 20, 2007....

    Mimi......that's why i fear so much living in that way...having so much to give and communicate and simply not being able to do it....your friend is so lucky to have you visiting and making him feel your love for him....very lucky {{hugs}}

     

    Secret......{i hug you tighlty}

    Kruu......i am living presently my second biggest fear....wasting my life and not giving my daughter the best she deserves....the fear of being physically paralized reflects im my fear of being emotionallly paralized....the Limbo sometimes can be worst than hell... ..seeing your days going by and not feeling that fullness the life is giving to other so freely... 

    Grape...funny....my brother and my mom share the same fear that you have...birds....

    Jenna....i have fear of heights too....and falling is not having control of your will....that's why i dont like to fly....but i fight it and fly...:-).  

  • mom said on Jan 20, 2007....
    Grape , I feel the exact same way about walmart on payday *shudder*  Large groups of women all with their beady eyes and claws, scares me immensely
  • Eclipsa said on Jan 20, 2007....
    Tornados.  I get panic attacks when there is a watch or warning for one.  After an episode of three consecutive days of tornado warnings three of four times within a twenty four hour period that happend where I live about ten years ago, I have been extremely freaked of them. 
  • waterstar said on Jan 20, 2007....
    I think Rockerchic set the tone of this discusion.  When
  • twinboyzmama said on Jan 20, 2007....
    I am feared by huge earthquakes, or the possibility of a tsunami. I lived in LA for the huge one of 73 - I was but a child, but it scared the shit out of me. I also survived the Bay Area quake of 1989, and let me tell you, that scared the hell out of me. But the ways of dying that scare me the most are burning or drowning. I'm sure there are others too, but those freak me the most.
  • queenparanoia said on Jan 21, 2007....
    i think fear has so many levels. but i admit there's only one fear that all of us human being shares. it is explained by marriane williamson on her poem.
     
    Our Deepest Fear
     
    Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
  • queenparanoia said on Jan 21, 2007....
    kruuyai i hope you face your fear..
  • anonymous said on Jan 21, 2007....
    Come on....the worst would be being buried alive. No ifs, ands, or buts.
  • fucked_up_girl said on Jan 21, 2007....
    my biggest fear or fears rather, are:
    1st: losing my family. my mom, my dad and my sister... i can't live without them. i may fight with them most of the time but i surely can't bear the though of losing them. they are everything to me. i know someday the inevitable will happen... and i don't think i want to be alive when that happens... i mean, when they finally leave this earth... i want to die first before they do... coz i don't think i can take that kind of pain...
    2nd: not falling OUT of love with the person who holds my heart right now... if i don't fall out of love, then im doomed forever. coz you see, the feeling is not mutual. it's not just a simple crush, or the cute puppy love. it's the curse of unrequited love. is there anything worse than that? someday, i want to have a family. a husband who loves me dearly, children whom i will care for for as long as i live. ive been in love with this person for quite a long time now. and everyday i carry the burden that my feelings are not returned, not even recognized. i fear that i may not lose this feeling that i have. i want it to disappear, so i can start anew. but then, i don't know how.
    3rd: not being able to reach my dreams. okay, i don't know YET what my dreams really are. or what i want to do in life. and that's what scares me. i don't have plans. im afraid i might be like this forever.
    4th: living alone. i guess everybody fears this.
    5th: the least of all my fears, but still, something i definitely fear... cockroaches :-)
  • silverwhisper said on Jan 21, 2007....
    more than anything else, i think i most fear the loss of my faculties. while i'm not facing an illness which makes that probable, as others here are, it does terrify me. in a sense therefore, GS's fear of paralysis, fear of some long-term debilitating illness or even anonymous's comment about fear of being buried alive are all interrelated, to me. even writer's block can scare me if it goes on for a while, b/c the ability to write most certainly is a faculty i prize.

    ed
  • kruuyai said on Jan 21, 2007....

    Wow, I go away for a day and everyone comes calling!  How wonderful to see all these thoughtful responses.

    mommyof2:  Yes, the loss of loved ones seems to be a recurring theme here.  I'm sure most people share that one.  I've already lost all my loved ones and survived, but when the first one went, I didn't think I would ever be able to get over it. 

    Jenna:  That's amazing.  That's the first time I've heard of a dream generating a new fear that wasn't there before (instead of the other way around).  I like to dabble in dream interpretation (for myself only, because I think a lot of the interpretation is so dependent on what's happening in the dreamer's life), and I think that kind of falling off a cliff in a dream can represent something positive... like taking a big step, and letting go of something you're clinging to.... it's scary, but also liberating.  Of course, in most dreams, you wake up before you hit the ground, so the dream doesn't give you all the information you need, but there are a lot of books (and probably information on the internet) about lucid dreaming (being aware that you are dreaming) and you might be able to reshape your dreams to bring yourself safely onto terra firma after the fall.  The best way to understand the meaning of a dream like that would be to ask yourself if there's something else that is terrifying you, but that once done, might set you free (and I don't mean in the sense that mom's son set his little brother free...  lol).  Sorry for the unsolicited advice.  I just can't help myself when it comes to dreams.

  • kruuyai said on Jan 21, 2007....

    secret:  I can understand that one... especially since I don't have health insurance.  Sudden death is okay.... a long, drawn out illness would be more of a problem.

    Mimi: That was absolutely beautiful what you said to ginger. 

    grape:  For you, I prescribe reading the book Jonathon Livingston Seagull lol.  :)  But seriously, I used to be terrified of ducks and geese when I was a little girl.  I think it was because of a dream I had that I went into my parents bedroom one night because I'd had a nightmare and I wanted to ask if I could sleep with them, and in the dark, while I was approaching their bed, I could swear I saw a giant goose with a big rock on its head that it wanted to throw at me.  To make matters worse, when I woke up the folks, they just told me to go back to bed.  The next time we went to Old MacDonald's Little Farm (a petting zoo), I went hysterical when I saw the ducks and geese and wouldn't even let my dad carry me past them.  He had to sit in the car with me while everyone else went on a hayride... kind of serves him right.  :)  I was also terrified of butterflies when I was little and would run screaming into the house every time I saw one.

    ginger:  that's a really good insight into your fear. 

    mom:  that's hysterical about payday at Walmart... you are one funny lady!

  • kruuyai said on Jan 21, 2007....

    eclipsa:  I remember how we had to hide out in the basement all the time during tornado season when I was a kid.  It was both scary and thrilling at the same time.  I can't say that I like tornadoes (I'm sure I'd shit a brick if I ever saw one in real life), but I really love tornado weather... warm, wild winds.  It's my favorite.  The air feels so... alive.  I've dreamed about tornadoes often (probably watched the Wizard of Oz one too many times), and those are usually really scary dreams.  But one time, I dreamed that I watched 12 of them touch down simultaneously, and then it turned into a sci-fi dream where cars were driving on a highway that went right up into the sky, and between all the tornadoes, and they disappeared into a different dimension.... ooops, am I getting off the subject?

    twinboyzmama:  I remember that earthquake in '89, but I wasn't in it.  That really would have been terrifying.  The only earthquake I was ever in was so mild that it was over by the time I realized what it was.

    queenparanoia:

  • kruuyai said on Jan 21, 2007....
    queenparanoia:  Thank you so much for sharing that with us.  I'm going to come back and read it often. I think we all need to hear more of those kind of thoughts.  And thank you for your wishes.
  • kruuyai said on Jan 21, 2007....

    fuckedupgirl: I suffered through eight years of obsession with my unrequited love, and I eventually did fall out of love with him.  I'm sure you will, too.  I know it's not something you can do on command, but it's a lot harder to be open to the guys that really do care about you when you're focused on someone who's unavailable.  Your real true love could be just around the corner, but you won't be able to appreciate him until you let go of your attachment.  BTW, I've seen your comments a couple of times, and I feel a little sad when I see your name, because I wonder if that's really how you see yourself.  I don't see you as fucked up at all... just very human.  {{{{hugs}}}}

    silver: that's one nobody's brought up yet.  I've often wondered about people with dimentia... if they're really unhappy, or maybe they're more happy without a lot of troublesome memories.  For myself, I think I'd be more afraid of having that happen to someone I loved than to myself... you know, it can be really traumatic to have a loved one not recognize you anymore... but it goes both ways, because we wouldn't want to hurt our loved ones by not recognizing them either and having them live through all that pain because of us.

    anon: I think I'd rather be buried alive than burn to death any day of the week.  I mean, you just lose oxygen and fall asleep and die peacefully.   No pain.  I guess the worse part of  being buried alive would be if you couldn't get your mind to accept it, and you panicked and had to live through all that fear, which brings us back to JFK quoting Roosevelt or someone (help me here, folks)  "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

  • fucked_up_girl said on Jan 21, 2007....
    hey dear, thanks a lot for seeing me in a different light... the name's just a name... :-) i sometimes feel so fucked-up but im learning everyday how to become more human (as you say)... everyday is a leaning experience. :-) thanks so much. don't worry, it's just a nick. :-)
  • kruuyai said on Jan 21, 2007....

    fug:  gotcha'   ;-)

  • MissMimi said on Jan 21, 2007....
    Ed brought up something that I've certainly thought about, fear of losing one's faculties. You know, as I've gotten older, I've had to face losing a lot of the physical ability I had when I was younger. Thankfully, I am still able to take care of my own personal needs. I dread the day, if and when it comes, when I can no longer take care of myself, or it becomes unsafe for me to be alone for any length of time. That represents a loss of dignity that I fear tremendously.
  • kruuyai said on Jan 22, 2007....

    Mimi:  yes, that's something that none of us look forward to.  I did some volunteer work last fall in England at a holiday center for people with physical disabilities.  Many of them had MS or CP or other debilitating diseases that left them in various states of paralysis.  Some had no control over their own bodies whatsoever.  Fortunately, the volunteers and staff that helped them with every aspect of their holiday, including their personal care, were amazingly caring and treated the guests with so much dignity.  Some of the people had been disabled for decades.  One woman told me that, at first, she used to insist on female caregivers, but at one point, she realized that sometimes, it was either going to be a man or nobody... it just depended on who was available. But she said she got over her embarassment very quickly because of how respectful her male caregiver was, and her permanent helper now is a man, who through the intimacy that generally happens when you spend that much time with someone, has gotten to be a good friend.  Sometimes, our troubles are blessings in disguise.   When we need help with something (whether it's something physical or otherwise) we often end up meeting wonderfully caring and helpful people that we wouldn't have met otherwise. 

  • purrrkitten said on Jan 23, 2007....

    Gotta throw in my two cents... 

    My fears are kinda stupid: Hypodermic needles (I don't have a phobia of them anymore but I'd still rather stay away from them) and swimming in water where I can't see what's underneath me.

    As far as dying goes, I'd prefer it to be quick and not drawn out in some torturous manner.

    Oh, and I used to be terrified of being ALONE without a man to "take care of me". Now I know I don't NEED one and that I'm perfectly able to take care of myself and my kids. ~^^

  • silverwhisper said on Jan 23, 2007....
    kruuyai, there's a movie i saw, absolutely wonderful, touching film, the notebook that touches on some of the things you mention in your response to my last comment.

    ed
  • dailyachesandpains said on Jan 23, 2007....
    Ed, that's the best movie EVER!
  • kruuyai said on Jan 23, 2007....

    purr: I'm more afraid when I can see what's underneath me when I'm swimming.  Once, I went snorkeling near the Bahamas, and there was was so much coral in the shallow sea, that I was terrified that I wasn't going to be able to keep my legs up high enough to avoid getting scraped on them.

    ed:  I haven't seen that movie.  I checked out the link, but the description didn't tell me how the story ties back into the old lady in the nursing home.  Since i'm not likely to get to see this movie anytime soon, can you fill me in?  please?  :)

  • silverwhisper said on Jan 23, 2007....
    tell you what, i'll do a blog entry on it later--i don't wanna spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

    ed
  • Nightangel said on Sep 07, 2007....
    My greatest fear is being alone.
    Living my entire life and never knowing
    what true love was.
  • anonymous said on Oct 12, 2007....
    Try visiting www.ofear.com they give great advice on phobias.
  • kruuyai said on Oct 12, 2007....
    Nightangel:  I think a lot of us share that fear.

    anon:  Thanks for the link.  Do you fear public exposure?  Is that why you commented anonymously?
  • Ofear said on Oct 12, 2007....
    Your welcome for the link:) I just wanted to remain anonymous no other reason really.

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