What Do You Fear?

[Taylirious]

Fear keeps us from becoming great and living the life we desire. For me this has always been the case and I rarely challenged my fears. I never really had courage. The times I did I eventually would go back to living in fear. In order to over come fear, you need to know what your are afraid of and then having the courage to face it.

What do I fear?

I fear...
Rejection, not being good enough.
Uncertainty, not knowing for sure things will be okay.
Unloved, not feeling love or be deserving of love.

I hope all this makes sense.

I am on a journey to build up my courage and face my fears but I never really thought about my fears.

ETA: Oh! I have always had a fear of heights and that has stopped me from doing some fun things in the past and even work related tasks. Just a few feet up on a ladder I go crazy.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

I like that you're explicitly confronting your fears head-on. I wish you the best of luck, TayLaLaLa!

As for me? What do I fear? My answer, with absolute sincerity, is that I fear "a cage ... to stay behind bars until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I fear only the inescapable truth that I will never have the time in this mortal realm that I need to vanquish all of my foes in this life...

...and clowns. I hate clowns.

 

[Pondwater]

Snakes, mice, rats and Port-a-potties.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Snakes mainly. I also once nearly had a panic attack trying to imagine non-existence and the long-term fate of the universe as every single star slowly dies out.

 

[thestrangequark]

I am really unhappy in an elevator.

 

[Amaris]

Death.
Loneliness, which I associate with death.

 

[Gryffindorian]

* Not having enough (I make sure not to get to that point)
* Growing old and feeling unfulfilled, having regrets about not enjoying life more.

 

[Goji]

Other people.

 

[kirk55555]

Interacting with people I don't know face-to-face for an extended period, and the fear than anything I do outside of completely mundane stuff is bound to end in literally the worst case scenario.

 

[Random_Spock]

Bees, hornets and wasps. Don't like them. At all. Just seeing them makes me want to get away as fast as possible.

Heights. I've gotten better with it, but I still don't like being all that high up for all that long.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Also, sex.

 

[sojourner]

Having my arms constrained while prone. it makes me hyperventilate. I think it stems from being at the bottom of "dog piles" during football as a kid. I would actually start to panic.

 

[Lucky]

Wasps. I freak out if I see one flying toward me. I hate those things. This fear pretty much includes all flying things with stingers, but Wasps are the ones that frighten me out the most.

 

[lurok]

Large spiders (bigger than a few inches) are the only thing I probably still have a primal response to. But like public speaking, it's something I can manage and control.

 

[Timewalker]

ETA: Oh! I have always had a fear of heights and that has stopped me from doing some fun things in the past and even work related tasks. Just a few feet up on a ladder I go crazy.

I don't have a problem climbing up a ladder. It's the coming down that scares me. That's why I'll never go on one of those holidays where people climb pyramids; I'd need a rescue team to get me back down.

But I did get over the fear of medium-long ladders, the first year I worked in musical theatre. Somebody had to go up to the lighting booth over the stage to fly a fake bird at the end of the first act. This involved climbing a ladder in the wings up to the rafters and going along a walkway (okay, I crawled, as the walkway wasn't very wide) and down into the lighting booth... and staying there until the time came to do the stuff with the bird.

In the meantime I had a great view of the play itself. And when it came time to come back down, it was just a matter of being careful and remembering to do it a certain way and it was perfectly safe. There was just once when I was scared up there - somebody turned the lights off too soon before I got settled in the lighting booth, and it was startling enough that I could have lost my balance if I'd been standing up instead of crawling.


I try to stay away from insects that sting and bite. The only reason I don't advocate for mosquitoes to be eradicated from the planet is because there are other animals that need them for food.

 

[wulfio]

settling down in the suburbs and keeping up with the joneses.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Here's the main things I'm afraid of:

Severe weather
Snakes
Heights
O'Hare International Airport

 

[Kemaiku]

Spiders, heights, confined spaces, germs.

 

[Kilana2]

Jem'Hadar going cold turkey.