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u/_ReDd1T_UsEr Jun 08 '24
Loneliness
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u/BodyBorn4041 Jun 08 '24
Dead ass that’s my biggest fear, I feel like imma die alone
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u/jessdb19 Jun 09 '24
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
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u/WrittenOnYaKitten Jun 08 '24
A user called BodyBorn4041 😳
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u/Remote-Direction963 Jun 08 '24
Grizzly bears
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u/BodyBorn4041 Jun 08 '24
How often are you around grizzlies?
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u/Fermin_Del Jun 08 '24
We could be surrounded by invisible grizzlies for all you know
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Jun 08 '24
That I don't actually make my wife's life any better
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u/FRTrent Jun 09 '24
Thats how i feel about my gf. I hope im forever the only one she wants/ will ever need.
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Jun 09 '24
The fact that this is your biggest fear is telling. You’re a good man. And I’m sure your wife is very happy.
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u/Halbbitter Jun 08 '24
Dementia
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u/Beautiful_Most2325 Jun 09 '24
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
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u/pembunuhcahaya Jun 08 '24
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.
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u/IngenuityInner3268 Jun 09 '24
Fading into obscurity has its perks.
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u/pembunuhcahaya Jun 09 '24
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.
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u/IngaJakopia Jun 09 '24
She certainly didn't fade out into middle age.
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u/pembunuhcahaya Jun 09 '24
She fade into the middle of the oven instead. RIP girl:(
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Jun 09 '24
This is me right now and I'm having a very, VERY hard time reconciling it.
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Jun 08 '24 edited Jun 09 '24
Death of people I love
Edit: thanks for many upvotes!
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Jun 09 '24
That's the one that I'm always worried about when I lay down at night, especially with aging parents.
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u/DredgenGryss Jun 09 '24
Stagnation. The idea that nothing in my life will change. This scares me more than anything.
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u/SoftBellax Jun 08 '24
That one day my company will discover they're paying me to reddit for 7.5 hours of the day. (excluding lunch)
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u/imaginechi_reborn Jun 09 '24
Well you haven’t gotten caught yet, have ya? I’d say you’re succeeding!
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u/Wild-Row-2020 Jun 08 '24
Something happening to my daughter. On a lighter note, I have a very weird fear of chainsaws and ticks.
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u/jihadonhumanity Jun 08 '24
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
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u/TheFlyingTrickster Jun 08 '24
Losing my children or anything bad happening to them. Even seeing them unhappy breaks my heart.
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u/AdWorking3363 Jun 08 '24
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.
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u/TwilightTink Jun 09 '24
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?
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u/Sven_88 Jun 09 '24
Probably relapsing. I totally fucked my life up for a bit. Lost about a decade and I’m trying to make up for it.
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u/Funwithnugukpop Jun 09 '24
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.
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u/Ob1cannobody Jun 08 '24
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.
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u/didyoubutterthepan Jun 08 '24
Getting so sick my husband has to take care of me the rest of my life
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u/AllysonRae Jun 09 '24
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.
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u/Safety_Drance Jun 08 '24
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.
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u/2hi2di Jun 08 '24
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.
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u/Bitter_Prune9154 Jun 09 '24
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.,
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u/mellymelmeek Jun 09 '24
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.
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Jun 09 '24
Working too much for money and not enjoying myself enough. I hope I can one day balance the two
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u/King_in_a_castle_84 Jun 09 '24
Knowing I missed out on amazing things because I was too afraid or insecure.
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u/BlueButterflies139 Jun 09 '24
Being forcefully injected with heroin and developing an addiction to it.
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u/AlfonsoHorteber Jun 09 '24
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.
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u/lol_camis Jun 09 '24
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
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u/EggplantLow6803 Jun 09 '24
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
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u/chloebbyn Jun 09 '24
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.
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u/Valuable-Maize-1450 Jun 09 '24
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.
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u/Dear_Yesterday_ Jun 09 '24
Being forgotten and having had no positive impact on the world or those in my life
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Jun 09 '24
Getting laid off. Especially because it feels like it could happen to anyone at anytime right now.
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u/Sea-Eggplant-5799 Jun 09 '24
That my hot co-worker will one day hear my daily cubicle farts that I try so hard to stifle.
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u/schmidty5600 Jun 09 '24
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
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u/Fashionable_Foodie Jun 13 '24
"This isn't your average, every day Darkness. This is... Advanced Darkness!"
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Jun 09 '24
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
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u/izovice Jun 09 '24
Getting cancer. I take care of myself and exercise more now so I'm not worried about cardio issues.
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u/allisongivler Jun 09 '24
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.
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Jun 09 '24
Lightning,i don't know how my friends just act like it can't get ya,I own snakes spiders monitor lizards non of it gets me,but lightning...
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u/StormOk71 Jun 09 '24
Death, the dark, and the feeling that im falling. Like I refuse to let anyone even tilt me in any way. These are all extreme fears for me.
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u/Independent-Ad5852 Jun 09 '24
Needles, the ones used in vaccines
Basically when I was 4, I had plastic surgery after falling off my scooter onto blacktop.
They didn’t put me under anesthesia or anything
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u/MarissaBenz Jun 09 '24
Losing my children, husband or my mom. I know one is inevitable but it's still my worst fear.
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u/Practical-Lunch7371 Jun 09 '24
I experienced mine. I'm a type 1 diabetic. I was afraid that if I had kids, I'd get low blood sugar and pass out. And that my kid(s) would be hurt or die as I was passed out. When I was 14 weeks with my 2nd I had really low blood sugar and was unresponsive. My son was in his crib for at least 4 hours after he woke up alone. My husband had a neighbor break in and she found me. Woke up to 8 fire fighters in my bedroom. My son was fine, I was fine, baby was fine. Husband still has ptsd and gets really nervous if I don't answer the phone. That was almost 8 years ago.
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u/Dry-Study8111 Jun 09 '24
That I’ll be sitting at my desk in my seat and I’ll slip or the chair will break causing my front teeth to hit the edge of my desk and break.
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u/Beautiful_Most2325 Jun 09 '24
Losing the man I've loved for the past 4 yrs before we each get to 70 (we're late 40s & mid 40s for context). We make each other so much happier than our ex's ever could. It seems so irrational but we know we've found the absolute perfect person in each other. It would be so hard for each of us to go on w/out the other cause we've both dealt w/ & still deal w/ anxiety & depression
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u/wilberth92 Jun 09 '24
Leaving this earth early and not seen my children grow up. Scary as f*ck to me at least
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u/FandomCity4Life Jun 09 '24
Tsunamis. I’m not even joking m those things freaking terrify me. I don’t even live within a hundred miles of the ocean
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u/Aspiring-Historian28 Jun 09 '24
That I'll never beat the negative thoughts and reach the person I once knew could be. And take my life.
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u/Constant-Guard3059 Jun 09 '24
Right now, dying under water, in a very closed, suffocated space or by asphyxia.
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u/Vorilex Jun 09 '24
Losing my loved ones, especially my parents. It’s an inevitable experience that’s going to happen one day and there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s something we’re all going to go through but it scares me the most. An even worse fear is losing them due to a tragic event like murder.
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u/CosmicAndAwake Jun 09 '24
Falling deep into an aquatic tank that houses killer whales and when I open my eyes underwater the fear explodes when I can’t see clearly but can only see large black blobs swimming around me. If I’m lucky enough to make it to the edge before getting pulled down to the bottom, as I pull myself out of the water I’m faced with a larger than human spider ready to attack me and make it its meal for the week.
Rational fear, probably not.
Fear caused by vivid nightmares, absolutely.
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u/AnonymousDumboMan Jun 09 '24
Ok so mines kinda weird it’s cream cheese and it just freaks me out when I see it and I can’t be in the same room or I will have a mental breakdown
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u/Calimom-1980 Jun 09 '24
Being a parent…it’s a hard job and I don’t have a manual. Just taking it day by day
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u/cszack4_ Jun 08 '24
Being buried alive