Your Intermost Fears

[DannyMc]

Everyone's life is different , yes there are simularities , but all the same , different . I may have touched on this subject before , but as of late it's come to mind . Fear , in life , what purpose (can it) and (does it) serve . Can it save ones life or help them lose it . (Can it) and (will it) put on more years to a young life than it should . Can it take away the very fabrics that can make a life just that , a life ........ Many different fears to speak of , some as simple or not so simple as where the money will next come from to pay the rent and keep you off the streets . Some may touch on the realms of protecting ones life , if it be as a private citizen or a hired protector . In war , I have never been in , I have watched it many a time , fear , cowardess , valor , bravery . The thought of dying , some seem readily to accept it , it seems with reason behind it , a distinct purpose makes it that much more accepting with fear thrown aside . Fear , has it a purpose or something for us to disgard , is love fearless and that which puts life back in us all ..................

 

[Babbles]

A nice mix

Maybe all of the above; it's a self-preservation mode,
but you can also lose your life if you allow fear to paralyze you, to keep you in a nice safe rut, never venturing out to truly "live.."

As far as the threat of (fear of) death, we don't know how we'll react until we're thrown into that situation, most likely... And love is often "fearless" in those circumstances, when concern for someone else overrides the
("fear factor," I had to say it.... 🙄 )

Otherwise lots of us are Prize Chickens in love, nobody wants to be rejected; I've heard people are often less afraid of dangerous physical situations than such emotional scenarios...

 

[Saeria]

I think fear serves a number of purposes, in healthy doses. As mentioned, it serves as a self-preservation method. A self-proclaimed fearless person will be more likely to find his/herself in a threatening situation than one who has a comfortable understanding of fear. Fear is a weapon, a tool, a tactic, a method... used in so many ways for both benevolent and malevolent purposes. Fear can keep a nation under the rule of a tyrant as well as keep a young child from going off with a stranger. Understanding how one should use and live with fear is a journey, i think.
A person who finally reaches a level of mental maturity to understand their own mortality will likely fear it first. I know i've spent countless sleepless nights simply pouring over the idea that even I will die. My body, my personality, the importance of my memories, my cognitive thought processes will cease. Then what? Without being alive i'll never know that answer and not knowing is the scariest thing of all. It's because of this fear of death that keeps me from acting recklessly, taking extra precautions when necessary.
Every has their own level of fear and phobia. There are perhaps people who have a healthy level of fear, enough to keep them safe by instinct yet no phobic response (is phobic even a word, if it ain't, it should be. I can dig it!) to any triggers. Others have the same fear but respond irrationally to certain triggers, spiders, clowns, heights, toasters (it's a real phobia.. i mean think about it, you never know when the toast is going to pop up, and you watch it so it won't startle you, but the harder you watch, the more it DOES scare you... toasters are evil). I honestly can't say that i know how phobias work, if they're an obsessive fear response, or something entirely different, but the average phobia does involve something that is potentially very dangerous. Spiders can be poisonous, Clowns.. one word, guys... Pennywise. Heights, falling hurts alot and the higher up you fall from, the more it hurts. Although the response is usually irrationally extreme, it still serves the basic fear purpose.
As for love, well... rejection gets you thrown off the island and has since the dawn of man. it's simply another self-preservation tactic i think.

That's what i think about it, anyways. Mama always said i wasn't an especially bright child 😀 .

 

[scissorman]

I'll make it short. Drowning. I have an INTENSE FEAR of drowning. I haven't swam since I was 8 years old. I never will again. The thought of drowning, absolutely terrifies me. I had a few experiences as a child, that may have helped lead to this fear. I don't care. I absolutely fear large bodies of water, and I would rather drink bile, than go near deep water.

 

[ChosenofMystra]

I'll keep mine short as well.

What scares me the most is dying unloved and unknown. The possibility that nobody would attend my funeral scares me.

Oh yes, and heights. I'm severely acrophobic. I have a hard time just riding in cars crossing a bridge, let alone try any of the stuff friends want me to, like skydiving....*shivers*

 

[asutickler]

I don't like needles. At ALL. I would sooner cut my arm open with a hacksaw and drip into a test tube than have blood drawn via a damn needle. Consequently I avoid the doctor like the plague, don't ever donate blood, and if I ever become a diabetic (to the point that it requires insulin injections), I'm probably a goner.

On a positive note, though, my fear of needles HAS kept me from being tempted to try out steroids... 😛

 

[locker669]

I'll make it short. Drowning. I have an INTENSE FEAR of drowning. I haven't swam since I was 8 years old. I never will again. The thought of drowning, absolutely terrifies me. I had a few experiences as a child, that may have helped lead to this fear. I don't care. I absolutely fear large bodies of water, and I would rather drink bile, than go near deep water.

I have the same fear, except I can go into the water as long as I can touch the bottom and my head stays above the water. If I think about it I panic.

 

[red indian]

I have a recurring nightmare of someone discovering an unreleased John Denver album.

 

[Bugman]

The possibility that nobody would attend my funeral scares me.

I dont plan to have one,so i dont worry about that.I want no service,i'm going to be cremated and scatered asap.I dont even want any ashes kept in a container of any sort.

 

[storyteller]

...I also have a fear that no one will ever truly know me. For instance, there's a part of my life that I come here to understand better, but most of us are anonymous and I have no reason to discuss other parts of my life here. So there are people in my life that know some things about me and other people --that I don't even know-- that already know something about me that lifelong friends don't know... It's all very odd and doesn't make a whole lot of sense when I read over it again, but I'm sure someone will understand... Maybe.

I understand and imagine that many others here do too. We all keep secrets of some sort for some amount of time for or from particular people because either we or the person we aid in secret keeping fears the reaction of others who may find out. What I fear more than my secrets being learned is how adept I've become at dividing my personality and maintaining an active knowledge of who knows what and what I keep to my self, whether it's a secret I keep for someone else or secrets I keep from everyone else. You think that means I'd make a good spy?