What's the one thing in life that scares you the most?

[Deja Q]

[Neoma]

1. Life.

[maveric]

2. Living and dying alone.

[Deja Q]

3. Seconded;

"dying alone".

I couldn't have found better words to use.

[Floogeldy]

5. Nobody dies alone!

All of their dead relatives are there to greet them at the end of the tunnel of light. :)

[ThomCat]

36. Not everyone would find that comforting.

x(

[redqueen]

48. everybody dies alone n/t

[gkdmaths]

55. you hit that nail right on the head.

alone.

[Phillycat]

30. Thirded

[ThomCat]

35. Agreed. And slowly dying in a lot of pain.

I must admit that I am very afraid of that.

[xmas74]

4. Extremely bad choices for wedding songs.

I really hate it when I have to laugh out loud while the bride and groom are dancing to "their song."

[WritingIsMyReligion]

33. Ooooh.....What's an example of that?

:)

[xmas74]

42. A few years ago a friend played the song

"Miracles" at her wedding. When I heard the first few bars of the song I accidently snorted champagne up my nose.

Nothing like playing a song that is the playbook for the wedding night seduction!


If only you believe like I believe, baby
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would I
If only you believe like I believe, baby
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would I.

I might have to move heaven and earth to prove
It to you, baby
So we're makin' love and you feel the power
And I feel the power
Then there's really nothing that we can't do
If we wanted to, baby
We could exist on the stars
It'd be so easy
All we gotta do
Is get a little faith in you
Oh, I've been (to) so many places
I've seen some things
I know, love is the answer
Keeps holding this world together
Ain't nothing better
Ain't nothing better
And all the answers to our prayers
Hell , it's the same everywheres, baby
Nothing ever breaks up the heart
Only tears give you away
Then you're right where I found ya
With my arms around ya
Oh baby, baby, baby, love is a magic word, yeah
Few ever find in a lifetime
But from that very first look in your eyes
I knew you and I had but one heart
Only our bodies were apart
That was so easy, so easy
I had a taste of the real world
When I went down on you, girl.

If only you believe like I believe, baby
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would I
If only you believe like I believe, baby
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would I.

I can hear windmills and rainbows
Whenever you're talkin' to me
I feel like swirling and dancin'
Whenever you're walking with me
You ripple like a river when I touch you
When I pluck your body like a string
When I start dancin' inside ya
Oh baby, you make me wanna sing
Yeah, baby, baby, baby, baby
Oh yeah, all right
Baby, we're sure doin' it tonight
Everytime you come by, let me try
Pretty, please sugar on it
That's how I like it
I can't even believe it, with you
It's like having every dream I ever wanted
Come true
I picked up your vibes
You know it opened my eyes
But I'm still dreamin' yeah
And you're right where I found ya
With my arms around ya.

[Phillycat]

45. Windmills and rainbows?

What the shit?

[xmas74]

62. They must have had some drugs of a poor quality.

I never saw windmills and rainbows during sex or while listening to the song.

[Phillycat]

63. Yes, especially because the lyrics are, "I can HEAR windmills

and rainbows". How do you hear rainbows??

[xmas74]

67. Thank you.

I'm telling ya-the only way you can HEAR a rainbow is on some sort of drug of a poor quality.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

46. Jefferson Starship, inn'nt?

I dunno....I can't see why that's such a weird song. Sure, it talks about sex, and it isn't the BEST song, IMHO, but whatever.

It's better than, say, "Every Breath You Take"--which is seriously more of a stalker song than a declaration of love. I don't get why so many people feel the need to have it as "their" song.

[xmas74]

61. Last time I heard Every Breath You Take at a wedding

I was drunk and laughed so hard that I peed on my bridesmaid dress.

Miracles was funny because it was an inside joke amongst our group of friends and most of the people didn't get it there. They thought it was sweet. We knew it was their sex song.

BTW-I did ask the groom if he had planned on getting a taste of the real world that night. He cracked up and then stole my Jack and Coke out of my hand.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

64. Oh, I get it!

It really WAS their sex song.

Now THAT is seriously funny. :rofl::rofl:

[xmas74]

66. And I adore them but

you really don't want to think about the two of them having sex. No way.

Bad enough every single time I see their kid I have to be reminded of that fact.

[wildhorses]

6. motorcycles....I had to choose something

cos Redstone...said so...
:hi::hug:

[Floogeldy]

7. Wasps, bumble bees, hornets and yellow jackets.

:scared:

[femmocrat]

8. Heights. n/t

[miss_american_pie]

9. Myself

or more accurately, what I'm capable of. :hi:

[MissMillie]

10. The possibility of out-living my child

not that it's probable, mind you.... it isn't. I don't want to have to bury a child--my only child

[ThomCat]

39. That is one of my mom's fears too

but it's pretty likely, unfortunately. It has been putting some strain on our relationship for years.
:(

[Roon]

49. My brother and I are both hiv positive

and it really strains my mother that she may outlive us both.

[ThomCat]

59. Mom's generally have a hard time with this.

My mom seems to alternate between feeling like I'm betraying her by having health/disability issues, and thinking that that if she ignores it all it will just go away.

Of course, my twin brother is healthy, married, has given her a grandchild, and he lives nearby. I can't imagine how she's feel if it was both of us.
:hug:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

11. I've thought about that alot actually. I've found that I think my

greatest fear is that life will pass me by. That I'll miss the world going around, and never do anything with my life, other then to succumb to a nagging system of boredom and apathy.

[DawgHouse]

12. The realization that I can't always keep my children safe from harm.

I think I have control issues. :)

[vixengrl]

13. Recognition of my own temporality/ephemerance.

I truly believe the world began about 5:20 a.m. Eastern time, 9/18/1972. All this business about history prior to my being born is just silly talk. If I could shake the notion that I am a unique, immortal being possessed of genuine individuality, and for once adopted the notion that I am, in fact, an organic robot, spouting pre-programmed nonsense until I chemically wind-down or am otherwise deceased, I should know absolute terror, except that, of course, the proof is in the "poofin", and I would have to actually be non-extant to really know what it is I fear--a logical improbability, and why I also snicker at the fear of hell.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

15. Oh, get over it. I'm much more important than you.

:)

[Jara sang]

14. transdimensional beings

[Guava Jelly]

16. Being Alone

kind of wierd since i hate crowds.
but you get my drift

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Panic attacks

More specifically, becoming enslaved by them again. :scared:

[zanne]

34. We share the same fear, Oeditpus. nt

[samsingh]

53. it sounds like you're over them so congrats.

[rug]

18. That picture, for starters.

[jpgray]

19. A shark riding an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see

[Floogeldy]

28. Ha ha!

:)

[otherlander]

71. That's not as bad as a polar bear tied to a pendulum.

I got into a discussion about this with a guy in my English class, when we were reading 'The Pit and the Pendulum'. He said that he couldn't think of a worse way to die, and I said it would be worse to be eaten by a polar bear. And then we decided that the worst way to die would be to be tied down and eaten by a polar bear that was tied to a pendulum that was slowly getting lower. That would suck a lot, wouldn't it?

If you aren't quite invisioning how much this would, in fact, suck, here's a picture:

[samplegirl]

20. Wondering how we will survive

the next two years and how much worse things can get.
The repercussions of this administration. The GOP has just
destroyed Ohio.
54,000 Houses in forclosure in Ohio we are leading state with
the most forclosures.

[NMMNG]

21. The Rabid Religious Right and the GOP

:hide:

[Jamastiene]

76. I said that too, sorta.

Hey, long time no see. I went and got myself addicted to another video game. I need a spanking now for not being here in so long. Will you oblige? :P

[pokerfan]

22. Bears

[Richard Steele]

23. Public Embarrasment.

[laundry_queen]

24. Watching one of my young children die.

That would be the worst. I'm not exactly OK with myself dying, but I'll take it a million times over any of my kids dying (before me, I know eventually everyone dies!).

[NewJeffCT]

56. I know what you mean

If you had known me before my daughter was born 3 1/2 years ago, you'd have thought I was a pretty unemotional guy - I could have been Mr. Spock's younger brother on Star Trek.

However, since that time, every time I read about a tragic death of a young person, I get all misty eyed... even if it's a person halfway across the world, or in a newspaper as dry as the Wall St. Journal.

[MissHoneychurch]

25. To not find someone I want to spend my life with

and have children with

And if I am fortunate enough to have kids I am also scared of being a parent.

[REP]

26. Tubal Ligation Failing During Bush Administration

:scared:

Okay, not so much since I had a backup sterilization done and I have ovarian cysts, so I'll go with heights.

But pregnancy ... :scared:

[Dulcinea]

27. Ending up in a nursing home

...bedridden, incontinent, suffering from Alzheimer's, waiting for death.

[ThomCat]

40. Nice userID

:)
I used to have a friend in College who used that name. Sweet person, crazy driver. I've wondered at times what she's up to.

[Dangerously Amused]

70. Mine as well... without the Alzheimer's part.

Alzheimer's - not knowing what was going on from one moment to the next - might actually make the situation easier to bear. What I would hate is being helpless, useless, immobile, unable to contribute in a meaningful way to my environment, incontinent, lonely, smelly, (conventionally) unattractive, old and in the way, waiting for death AND fully aware of all those facts.


=shudder=


Wow. I think I'm gonna cry now, for all the old people who ARE that way right now, as well as for the fact that it might be me some day...



:cry:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

29. Doctors,

I have a long put-off appt this afternoon and I'm freaking a bit.

[YankeyMCC]

31. That no matter what I do my son's future may be screwed

by the people like shrub and darth chenney and the religous right

[LynzM]

32. the death of my daughter or husband

The fear of losing someone I love, especially somehow being the cause (car accident or something like that). Ugh. :scared:

[Roon]

54. I never lost anyone close

My maternal Grandparents are still alive and was very active in raising us kids. My paternal Grandparents died years ago, but I could count on one hand how many times I saw them in my life.

[NewWaveChick1981]

37. Presently, it's the prospect of having W in the White House

until January 2009. :scared: :puke: He's damaged our country so much so far that I'm afraid we won't even have anything left by then.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

38. Organized religion, especially in its most radical forms.

Followed by the reichwingers, and then science without morality (nuclear bombs, an excessive proliferation of robotics, etc.) I can't stand to watch sci-fi movies anymore, especially those "If you don't change, this is what is going to become of the world!" ones--they seem all too possible in today's day and age.

[noonwitch]

41. Fire

I can take most pain, but I couldn't take death by fire.

[Nickster]

43. Friggin Airplanes! n/t

[LSK]

44. getting on an airplane

[redqueen]

47. living without love... romantic love

the other kind i have... it's only the romantic kind i seem to be incapable of finding... the requited kind, anyway.

[skygazer]

50. Drowning

Close second - going insane. I almost did the first once - don't want to repeat it. I've done the second - it's not all it's cracked up to be.

[samsingh]

51. there are too many

[gkdmaths]

52. being woken up from a nice sleep within my tent on the arctic tundra

and slowly being devoured while completely lucid, soft belly first, by a polar bear.

That's why I never rafted the Koyukuk after highschool.

They say that if you are ever out hiking and actually see a polar bear that you shouldt bother running. youre just fucked.

:hide:

[anarch]

57. David Hasselhoff

[Yavin4]

58. President Jeb Bush

or President George Allen or President Bill Frist or President Rudolph Guiliani.

[taterguy]

60. Losing my penis to a whore with disease

Although I never had that fear until hearing that Pixies lyric

[martymar64]

65. Being homeless

I've always feared being destitute. I know intellectually that it probably wouldn't happen but it scares me anyways.
That and dying alone.

[Stardust]

73. Every day I walk by them and realize just how precarious my situation is

And I suspect the heartless current administration just loves it that the homeless constantly warn us of what can happen it we don't toe the line.

[RevCheesehead]

68. Losing those that I love.

[otherlander]

69. Spending the rest of my life in jail for something I didn't do.

[Stardust]

74. There are probably several million in USA alone who fit that description

[DelawareValleyDem]

72. Fox News

[Jamastiene]

75. Conservative right wing nuts!

Mommy, I'm scared, please make them stop. I've been saying that for what feels like most of my life now. Here's the deal. I live in a red state. They creep me out. I'm desparately trying to finish college, so I can make enough money and escape. Shhh. Don't tell them. They will do everything in their power to trap me here and torture me for the rest of my life. They are miserable people and they don't want anyone else to be happy. I'm not too sure about them. Did you hear that? Must just be me being paranoid. Or is it?

[Jamastiene]

77. I'm still not too sure about them.

Not long after typing that other reply to the op, I began hearing things. Maybe I need professional help. :P

[khashka]

78. Dieing alone

I won't allow that to happen to anyone I love.

But I know it will be my fate and it scares me.


Khash.

[BlueIris]

79. Never ever meeting another person who isn't damaged by predjudice,

bigotry or hatred in some part of their psyche.

[KatyMan]

80. Bears

and monkeys. I will continue to assiduously avoid any place where I can run into either one of those creatures.
Weird, isn't it?

[Benfea]

81. Watching my nation become a fascist nightmare.

Ooops. Too late. :(