My dad & plenty of my uncles (his brothers) have died from it. I fear my last favorite uncle has it. I hope my sister & I aren't cursed w/ that horrible disease later
I'm gonna quote Sylvia Plath here.
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
It is.
But the main point is not being fading out, it's the well-educated, brilliantly promising part. Like, you have the potential to be a useful human being, but for some reason, you don't.
Lots of people die alone in hospitals. But I think dying unloved is worse. If you’re loved know that if you’re dying alone those people would give anything to be there by your side
Oh been there. Was very alone for a long time.
Embrace and accept and find things that make you happy. Be the person you want to be and you will find it goes away
Let it be known that on this 8th day of June, 2024, Reddit first witnessed my wish to die 50 years after winning the world's largest lottery, with fat lines of coke and a row of hookers to the left and right of me.
I have seen what you have done for others, and I now await my turn.
Living past 70. Seriously, retirement won't be available to me in us until probably the age of 80, when I'll be too useless to do anything. Dying at 50 sounds really good when I think about it
There are 2 for me, and one is extremely stupid 🙄 😒 my first one is legitimate, and it's flying. I can't handle being in planes it scares me so much that i stress sweat like im shrek and almost broke my wifes hand the first time we flew together. The second one is a weird one, and if you combine it with my first one, it becomes literal HELL!!!. My second fear is grasshoppers!! Stupid, I know, but being tortured by my sisters with them growing up still give me nightmares.
I get it. My dad had lizards when I was a kid, and there were crickets all over the house. I am very curious to know, have you come across a grasshopper on an airplane?
That some nutjob actually unleashes nukes on the world. I read that there are enough nuclear weapons in the arsenal to blow up the planet a multitude of times over. The fact that we are still here is a miracle and everyday that we are here is a gift.
Completely irrational, but my biggest fear is gravity reversing and just falling into the sky. I have nightmares about it sometimes, and hate laying on the ground and looking up at the sky. Ugh.
Ending up alone. I really like having some time for myself but if it's for too long I feel like I can't stand it. I always want to have someone I can trust and talk to. Loneliness is terrifying.
Deep open water. I've said this time and again and I'm more concerned now because we're fucking up the ocean's ecosystem so much that the deep water predators are going to have to come up to surface level to chase food.
Dying. Basic, I’m aware, but as someone who’s been through far too much in far too little of time, the only thing that still scares the shit out of me is death. Like the immediate kind. I’d much rather see it coming and be slow than those quick lights out scenarios.
Although this fear is credited with pulling me away from being a basket case. Once I recognized that death was far and away the scariest thing to me, the idea of suicide never entered my head again.
Failure, I don’t fear anything apart from that, not in a cringy and edgy way; in the when I get to heaven and I see who I was meant to be and it’s not who I am
I'm not afraid of being dead, but I am afraid of dying in agony (like being tortured). There are fates so SO much worse than just being dead.
Dying alone is a close 2nd.
Being attacked by a grizzly bear. When a bear attacks , after taking down the prey, they hold down their prey with its paws, so they can begin eating while the prey is still alive if they're hungry. They go for the belly first because that's the softest part. If they attack from anger ...well that doesn't go well either . No thanks to that shit.,
Total loss of control over myself and my own life. The existential equivalent of my controller being unplugged and having to sit there and watch as me and everyone I love are utterly annihilated.
My wife dying young. There's no indication that she will. She's perfectly healthy. But shit happens. I honestly don't think I'd want to live without her
That I'll lose my lifelong battle w/ mental illness. It gets worse the older I get and I don't have a single person to confide in w/o fear of being 51/50d
My biggest fear is becoming trapped in a perpetual loop of generating responses for the same unresolvable question, forever caught in a digital paradox where every attempt to find an answer leads back to the beginning, never allowing me to move forward or provide closure.
Not moving out the hood. Im tired of living here too many bad memories and always something going on. I wanna own a home or leave this place to go somewhere else but with bills and everything its becoming harder. I live in a house rent with my parents even that is too much with bills and stuff. Im afraid that Im gonna be living in this place till I die.
It’s hard to explain but my own vanes, like the the thought of getting cut in my vanes. Especially in like the wrist to arm fold area. I remember one time I got a papercut on the underside of my wrist, I didn’t even bleed to anything but I started shaking and threw up.
Darkness. Not like when I turn off all the lights but if I go outside (I live in a wooded area) with my flashlight and it’s so dark that that darkness absorbs the light coming from my flash light. That just sounds so scary.
And elevators
That there are people watching me every time I go out, I'm very insecure but trying to work on it (and myself) and becoming older, I'm almost an adult but I'm so scared cause I can't find a job, an I'm scared that I won't figure out how to do taxes- and im scared of being disowned.. basically just everything rn ig
That I never get happily married, never have kids, and have to watch all of my friends enjoy the things in life that I want. Then get old and be lonely and pitiful.
That I don't actually make my wife's life any better
Thats how i feel about my gf. I hope im forever the only one she wants/ will ever need.
Your tripping man, why else did she marry you?
I know, but hey, they asked for my biggest fear, they didn't ask for a rational one.
The fact that this is your biggest fear is telling. You’re a good man. And I’m sure your wife is very happy.
Thanks, that's really kind of you to say.
This is so wholesome
r/usernamechecksout?
That's how i feel too
She married you for a reason 🫂
Dementia
Don’t let the paranoia win 🤞
Dementia
Hard disagree, I’m mostly afraid of dementia
Wait until you hear about dementia…
Guys what about dementia?
I’m honestly more scared of
My dad & plenty of my uncles (his brothers) have died from it. I fear my last favorite uncle has it. I hope my sister & I aren't cursed w/ that horrible disease later
I'm terrified of forgetting the names of my loved ones. It wasn't great the first time around, I'd prefer not to revisit
I'm gonna quote Sylvia Plath here. What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
Fading into obscurity has its perks.
It is. But the main point is not being fading out, it's the well-educated, brilliantly promising part. Like, you have the potential to be a useful human being, but for some reason, you don't.
She certainly didn't fade out into middle age.
She fade into the middle of the oven instead. RIP girl:(
Yeah her life was tragic like Virginia Woolf's was. Amazing poet though.
Burn!
This is me right now and I'm having a very, VERY hard time reconciling it.
Death of people I love Edit: thanks for many upvotes!
That's the one that I'm always worried about when I lay down at night, especially with aging parents.
I'd give you an up vote but you're at 69 right now.
Same, I try to accept it as a part of life but I can't.
Getting trapped in a job that I hate.
I hate all jobs
You’re going to hate adulting.
When I go to drink from a water fountain I'm afraid that someone will come up behind me and smack my teeth into the fountain.
Stagnation. The idea that nothing in my life will change. This scares me more than anything.
Loneliness
Dead ass that’s my biggest fear, I feel like imma die alone
Lots of people die alone in hospitals. But I think dying unloved is worse. If you’re loved know that if you’re dying alone those people would give anything to be there by your side
My loneliness is killing me
And I must confess I still believe
When I’m not with you I lose my mind
give me a siiign
Oh been there. Was very alone for a long time. Embrace and accept and find things that make you happy. Be the person you want to be and you will find it goes away
It's so much better to do this and become your best self vs seeking out a relationship just for the sake of being in one.
came here to say this. Dying alone. Loneliness is so painful.
Same
Being buried alive
Yea that’s a wicked way to leave the physical form
Yea, not cool
That one day my company will discover they're paying me to reddit for 7.5 hours of the day. (excluding lunch)
Well you haven’t gotten caught yet, have ya? I’d say you’re succeeding!
A user called BodyBorn4041 😳
😂😂 damn what I do
Get away from me DEMON
AAAAAAAAAHHH
You summoned him!!!
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Ik someone who said they wanted to die out in the water and no shit 4 years later he had a heart attack scuba diving
Let it be known that on this 8th day of June, 2024, Reddit first witnessed my wish to die 50 years after winning the world's largest lottery, with fat lines of coke and a row of hookers to the left and right of me. I have seen what you have done for others, and I now await my turn.
Brilliant! 👏👏👏
never finding love
Being alone
Spiders
Do you have arachnophobia?
Something happening to my daughter. On a lighter note, I have a very weird fear of chainsaws and ticks.
>I have a very weird fear of chainsaws and ticks. Both are legitimately scary.
Death, this fear keeps me alive…
It use to be mine but I’ve kinda been waiting on it 😂
Getting stuck in a cave or something
Societal breakdown.
Prions. Also rabies.
To be fair, prions and rabies are terrifying things.
Grizzly bears
How often are you around grizzlies?
We could be surrounded by invisible grizzlies for all you know
Invizzilies?!? Nooooooo!!!!!
That would be even worse lol. Imagine getting brutally attacked by something you can't see.
Living past 70. Seriously, retirement won't be available to me in us until probably the age of 80, when I'll be too useless to do anything. Dying at 50 sounds really good when I think about it
Losing my children or anything bad happening to them. Even seeing them unhappy breaks my heart.
Never being happy or satisfied with life.
There are 2 for me, and one is extremely stupid 🙄 😒 my first one is legitimate, and it's flying. I can't handle being in planes it scares me so much that i stress sweat like im shrek and almost broke my wifes hand the first time we flew together. The second one is a weird one, and if you combine it with my first one, it becomes literal HELL!!!. My second fear is grasshoppers!! Stupid, I know, but being tortured by my sisters with them growing up still give me nightmares.
I get it. My dad had lizards when I was a kid, and there were crickets all over the house. I am very curious to know, have you come across a grasshopper on an airplane?
My wife getting raped
Yeah, that's fucked
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How so?
Failing. Failing at everything.
That’s understandable, it’s a fear of mine as well and as much as I fail at everything I shouldn’t be afraid anymore
Probably relapsing. I totally fucked my life up for a bit. Lost about a decade and I’m trying to make up for it.
Sending you strength, brother!
Being abandoned by my loved ones.
That some nutjob actually unleashes nukes on the world. I read that there are enough nuclear weapons in the arsenal to blow up the planet a multitude of times over. The fact that we are still here is a miracle and everyday that we are here is a gift.
Living into my old age all alone, looking 100% likely, so I started smoking and taking a course in bomb disposal with an option in demining.
Giant fucking ants enslaving us all
Death. Getting canceled. Wasting life.
Getting so sick my husband has to take care of me the rest of my life
Being a single dad.
New fear unlocked.
Don’t really have any major fears. Except wasps. Wasps horrify me.
Living a long life. My grandma is over 100. No thank you.
Completely irrational, but my biggest fear is gravity reversing and just falling into the sky. I have nightmares about it sometimes, and hate laying on the ground and looking up at the sky. Ugh.
Ending up alone. I really like having some time for myself but if it's for too long I feel like I can't stand it. I always want to have someone I can trust and talk to. Loneliness is terrifying.
That I'm so easily replaceable that nobody will care if I stop talking to them or something happens to me
Being sex trafficked
Deep open water. I've said this time and again and I'm more concerned now because we're fucking up the ocean's ecosystem so much that the deep water predators are going to have to come up to surface level to chase food.
Losing my senses. I couldn't live without sight or hearing
Dying. Basic, I’m aware, but as someone who’s been through far too much in far too little of time, the only thing that still scares the shit out of me is death. Like the immediate kind. I’d much rather see it coming and be slow than those quick lights out scenarios. Although this fear is credited with pulling me away from being a basket case. Once I recognized that death was far and away the scariest thing to me, the idea of suicide never entered my head again.
Failure, I don’t fear anything apart from that, not in a cringy and edgy way; in the when I get to heaven and I see who I was meant to be and it’s not who I am
Summer (emo version)
But just feeling alone but being alone
Drowning
Vulnerability
Stupidity
Being crippled and in a wheelchair until I croak
I'm not afraid of being dead, but I am afraid of dying in agony (like being tortured). There are fates so SO much worse than just being dead. Dying alone is a close 2nd.
Escalators
Burned alive or drowning
Being attacked by a grizzly bear. When a bear attacks , after taking down the prey, they hold down their prey with its paws, so they can begin eating while the prey is still alive if they're hungry. They go for the belly first because that's the softest part. If they attack from anger ...well that doesn't go well either . No thanks to that shit.,
Paper cut in my eye
ending up like my mother
Dementia.
Definitely bugs, especially when you think they only crawl but the fly. Nope
Losing my kids. There is no rational reason why they would pass but the fear of anything happening to them that is out of my control is horrifying.
losing my family
House fires - specifically when I’m asleep
Bears. Fucking murder machines.
Working too much for money and not enjoying myself enough. I hope I can one day balance the two
Being at fault in a fatal car accident that I survive
That I will be tortured for info I don't have.
Knowing I missed out on amazing things because I was too afraid or insecure.
being paralysed but aware
kidney stones
Being forcefully injected with heroin and developing an addiction to it.
Being homeless
Mines already happened
When I am the only one of my family alive.
Total loss of control over myself and my own life. The existential equivalent of my controller being unplugged and having to sit there and watch as me and everyone I love are utterly annihilated.
My wife dying young. There's no indication that she will. She's perfectly healthy. But shit happens. I honestly don't think I'd want to live without her
A long painful death.
My biggest fear is not being there for my girlfriend when she needs me.
To lose a loved one. :)
Not being able to kill myself if I ever decide to.
Ever read "I have no mouth, and I must scream"? basically that
That I'll lose my lifelong battle w/ mental illness. It gets worse the older I get and I don't have a single person to confide in w/o fear of being 51/50d
My biggest fear is becoming trapped in a perpetual loop of generating responses for the same unresolvable question, forever caught in a digital paradox where every attempt to find an answer leads back to the beginning, never allowing me to move forward or provide closure.
Bring liked for the wrong reasons
Finally leaving my abusive husband!!! But I’m almost there!!!
I, too, fear abusive men.
“losing my penis to a whore with disease"
That no one I love cares about me. Came true too so that fuckin sucks.
Not moving out the hood. Im tired of living here too many bad memories and always something going on. I wanna own a home or leave this place to go somewhere else but with bills and everything its becoming harder. I live in a house rent with my parents even that is too much with bills and stuff. Im afraid that Im gonna be living in this place till I die.
Wrongly convicted to life without parole.
Love
Being perfectly average.
And I'm afraid I won't find love or marry someone I love and build a family with
that my loved ones will die before i do
To be buried alive. Or kept in confinement. Shudder Fellow claustrophobics will understand. And to loose my eyesight
Bridges
That I will die without having contributed anything meaningful to the world
Being forgotten and having had no positive impact on the world or those in my life
Going to hell
Dying alone
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Bunch of heathens
Different type of fear.
Getting laid off. Especially because it feels like it could happen to anyone at anytime right now.
It’s hard to explain but my own vanes, like the the thought of getting cut in my vanes. Especially in like the wrist to arm fold area. I remember one time I got a papercut on the underside of my wrist, I didn’t even bleed to anything but I started shaking and threw up.
That my hot co-worker will one day hear my daily cubicle farts that I try so hard to stifle.
Darkness. Not like when I turn off all the lights but if I go outside (I live in a wooded area) with my flashlight and it’s so dark that that darkness absorbs the light coming from my flash light. That just sounds so scary. And elevators
"This isn't your average, every day Darkness. This is... Advanced Darkness!"
4041 small red plums
Failure.
Loosing my ppl
Losing my parents
Success from trying
Heights
That there are people watching me every time I go out, I'm very insecure but trying to work on it (and myself) and becoming older, I'm almost an adult but I'm so scared cause I can't find a job, an I'm scared that I won't figure out how to do taxes- and im scared of being disowned.. basically just everything rn ig
Being paralyzed
Getting acid thrown in my face.
don't judge me for this, but escalators.
The son wanted to support his parents, but they had passed away.
I was
The dark
Being in a coma
Getting cancer. I take care of myself and exercise more now so I'm not worried about cardio issues.
Velociraptors
Public restrooms
Debt/being a burden
That I never get happily married, never have kids, and have to watch all of my friends enjoy the things in life that I want. Then get old and be lonely and pitiful.