not afraid of death, spiders, snakes, heights, enclosed areas, or open water (even though i can't swim). i am afraid of being stuck in a routine. grinding through 40 hours a week just to get rewarded with a weekend sucks. there's gotta be more to life than work, eat, ****, sleep.
Can't really say I'm afraid of anything - spiders, snakes, heights, etc... - but I do have an unnatural hatred of clowns and dolls, the creepy factor is waaaay high.
Surprised there's so many Arachnophobes here. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/08/09/spider-crawls-in-woman-ear-lives-there-for-5-days/ Myself, afraid of falling from great heights.
I work a 45-hour week nearly every week and it comes nowhere close to defining my life. I'm rewarded with a weekend and time away from the office that I spend with my beautiful family and loads of friends. I'm also rewarded with a job that makes me think, provides me with great benefits, and money to pay the bills/save for the future. The problem is when people let work define them. I work to live, not live to work. With that motto, it doesn't really matter what your job is or when you have to go to it.
Going blind. My eyes are the only connection left to the world...I don't think my sense of smell would be enough. I can't even be in a pitch black room or I'd freak out. I also have a fear of death...probably because I haven't come terms with my faith or mortality.
I'm constantly afraid of being car jacked when I go on test drives at work. A guy took me to a ghetto ass house the other day telling me he needed to get his check stubs and left me outside in the car for about 20 minutes. I had forgotten my phone on my desk and I was turrified.
You're deaf? I share your sentiments on being blind, you don't even have to be deaf to freak out about being blind. Deaf is one thing because you can still see everyone, watch TV, do sports, play games, communicate in a good way and live your life. But being blind I wouldn't see any sense in life. Sounds hard but I'd commit suicide in that case, no one would be able to talk me out of it.
i work 8-5 M-F just like most people and receive the same benefits as you. i didn't say it defines me and i certainly don't live to work. but frankly, no matter how much one loves their job, it's still a job. the 40 hours/week we spend working is 40 hours we can't allocate to other things like family and friends or vacations. it's not the job that's the issue, it's the routine.
I think there are illnesses that can compare to this. Having Alzheimer's or Parkinson's is pretty bad IMO. Not an illness, but what if you get into a freak accident that leaves you completely paralyzed from the neck down? Or whatever Stephen Hawkins has...
I hate spiders, they all must die!!! Oh but my biggest fear is dying old, lonely, and not getting a chance to start a family.
I'm sometimes irrationally afraid of my wife (or any other loved one) going missing. Having a loved one die would be horrible, but missing? I don't think I could live with the not knowing. Bottom line is that I watch too many of these 48 Hours mystery type shows.
Yup, exactly. The world is a beautiful place and I don't want to lose the privilege of seeing the world.
my generation and the next generations in the future spraining ankles and any types of major injuries
