What is your worst fear?

I can really only think of 2 things that scare me the most, and that would be deep water and tight places.

I can swim very little, but I always make sure I am in control while in the water. Meaning I don't go into the ocean or really deep pools. I have the worst fear of not being able to touch the bottom!
Secondly I get a sick feeling in my tummy knowing that I am in a tight place. Strange about this one though b/c when I was a kid I use to hide under the bed while playing hiding go seek! I guess as I got older and bigger...things changed!

What are your fears?

Mollybee, so...I guess that means scuba diving is out of the question for you right..?? :-)

My fear would be high places. I am terrified of being higher than say..oh...6 feet high..LOL..

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Oh boy, I thought I never had a fear; would never fear anything. To be concerned is one thing, to fear is another. BUT, this nile virus thing has really got me on the edge. Enough to screen in the front porch and maybe the back. If the virus has only been in this country for a few years, and it is now in California (starting on the east coast), where will we be in , say, 5 or 10 years? It only takes one bite and I will be history. Do we stay inside to avoid the mosquito? What about those that make their living working outside? Going swimming in the creek tonight? I don't think so. Am I making this too big of a thing? I sure hope not.

O Lisa Scubba diving!!! I would have to have plenty of clean clothes just thinking about that!! LOL!

Gold, Yea the West nile is a very scarey thing too!!

my biggest fear is something to happen to my children....(I get anxiety attacks just thinking about it....) If I can't see my children at all times (like if one is spending the night with a friend) I work myself up into a frenzy....and I scare the daylights out of myself.

Even though I am 6'6" I have a great fear of heights. I don't like riding on any of the rides at the parks. It doesn't bother me to fly however. Molly I can't swim a lick. I always was able to wade with these long legs. A couple of years ago I got stuck on an elevator at work and that was scary. I was in there about 20 minutes before it was repaired and I got out. The elevator had a phone and luckily it had been out of order for a while but was repaired about two days before the incident. Now I was sweating big time when they finally got the elevator moving. I wasn't worth a thing the rest of the day.

O Jim I can just picture it now! I would have been in tears begging for someone to open the door! I could just imagine the eleator coming loose at the cable and free falling!!!!!! Sounds like you faired better than I would have! Wading in water is about all I do too.

Pebble, I know the feeling!! But I will admit that over the years I have ajusted to letting them go off a little more often. I even sometimes find it peaceful.

Oh my gosh, I'm so scred of heights, small places, my children being hurt and that is all I can think of,LOL.

I am afraid of NOTHING nor NOBODY!!!!!!!!!

But I HATE snake's!!!!!!!!

sue

I think the fear of all parents is to have anything happen to their children, and I'm no exception.

As far as personal fears go, well I'm not scared of heights, nor am I scared of the sea, I've never had any fear of lighting, and I love fairgrounds, (I'm the one who drags my son onto them), but I think my major fear must be having no-one around.

I don't mean that as in the mountains, I love to be on my own there, but I can always come back to someone.

The thought of having no-one to love, or to be with, and just drift through my life without any goal, fills me sometimes with apprehension. Loneliness is hell for me.

That's the truth

Wintermoor

I had totally forgotton about being scared of storms!! But yes I am VERY VERY scared of bad thunder storms!
I also have a fear of being caught out in a storm all alone.

For me.. I am scared of spiders or guns. I hate to touch or use a gun. For a spider.. It would make me so panic and even crying if someone try to bring spider to me or trick on me..

MOLLYBEE, hey, want to go for a ride in a Yellow Submarine?

O John you Dawg!! You wouldn't do that to me now would ya? I cringe at the thought of even climbing in!!

Most of my fears have already been expressed, but here they are:

Fear of something happening to my kids

Fear of myself, DH, or one of the kids getting cancer or another disease, or in a horrible accident

Fear of being without a source of income

Fear of growing old alone with no friends or family around

Fear of not seeing the way Our Lord is leading me.

Right now I am consumed with the fear of not being able to get all my potted plants to fit in the spaces that I have to put them for the winter. I have added a tremendous number of them since last year and the elephant ears from the co-op aren't even here yet. I can't stand to compost the extras cause they are so pretty. I am trying to figure an easy way to give them away and some sane way to decide what has to leave my home. Ah, woe is me! It is giving me nightmares. May not seem like much to anyone else but it is driving me nuts or should I say nuttier?

death-of any family memeber and myself-other than that NUTTIN! ;]

if i was buried alive i think that might upset me! =]

Apart from fireworks and something nasty happening to my family a personal fear for me is being mangled. I vividly recall a piece Spike Milligan wrote about being crushed by a tank.

http://www.phobialist.com

Enjoy!

-Jennifer

Oh, I love thunderstorms! Especially when it's dark and I'm in bed warm and safe. Call me strange...

My fear right now is the manner in which the President will decide to take action if any on the politics in Iraq.

If I were the President, my biggest fear would be how to fight terrorism. It seems like a war that cannot be won in any fashion in which we have had experience or are familiar.

I read this header and thought right away suffocation and drowning. That is exactly what Mollybee started off with! My fears seem to relate to not being able to breathe. I remember as a kid having the wind knocked out of me on many occasions from rough play with my siblings. I think that terrible feeling of not being able to catch my breath has lead to this fear in adulthood. I hate elevators, airplanes, or most anyplace where I cannot exit when and where I want. I can't even have the covers over my head in bed. I love thunderstorms though!

That Bobbie will buy a pair of things. I mean thongs.

LOL Jim if that was my only fear....I'd be home free!

LOL Jim! I almost fell outta my chair here...hahahaa! good one!

Jim, I think you jumped a link there. The thong thread is elsewhere. Have you all found it? It is a hoot! It is titled "The Underwear Generation Gap".


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LOL Yea Jim got in on that thread too, and I think once he did he realized what his real fear really was LOL

Yeah Molly, I was just "funnin'" Jim!

My greatest fear seems to be that God's will for me will include a catastrophic illness and that I will need chemotherapy.

Being 5 feet tall, I hate crowds, because my face is usually in everyone's armpit.

I am afraid of spiders and want someone else to kill them NOT gently take them outside so they can prey on me another day!

I LOVE being up high, and I love thunderstorms. My mom was terrified of thunderstorms and so my dad, hoping to teach us not to be afraid, used to sit outside on the terrace with us (there was a roof to the terrace) and explain what the storm was and how to protect ourselves if we got stuck in one, and admire the power and beauty of God's creation.... it worked for me, but my sister is still scared.

I love water and had snakes as pets when I was a kid. Once one got into my office in a big suburban office building and I picked it up and took it back outside into the wooded area from whence it came... that was so funny, the men wouldn't touch it and I went in there and came out with the baby garter snake wrapped around my hand! Too funny!
My husband is phobic about snakes and can't even see a picture of one without flipping out.

: )

I have always had a fear of heights. I kept it to myself the entire time I was raising my kids and went overboard to make sure that my fears didn't rub off on them. Now years later I find that all 3 of them have that same fear and never told anyone about it until now. It has to be heredity kicking in because I never let it show around them.

Due to a high high swinging bridge we walked on when I was a small child I am afraid of heights.
JoanJ stated a lot of my other fears and Wintermoor, you have that right. I never want to be alone on a permanent basis.
I don't mind snakes or spiders as long as they are not the poisonous ones in which case I just calmly kill them.
I am really scared of seeing my ex-landlord as he had a very weird thing for me and used to harass me. He lives in my area and I have a fear that he will show up when I am here alone.
Lightning scares me into the house where I will happily watch the storm.
I fear the dark if I do not feel far enough from the above ex-landlord! Creepy feelings.
I fear not being able to take care of all the beautiful plants that I have gotten from my DG friends.
Lani

How creepy Lani!! I would be scared too! Let's hope he doesn't come back around your place ever!!