what’s your biggest fear, not like spiders or heights, the real one
mine’s dying without ever actually making it, like looking back one day and feeling like i failed at life overall
curious what everyone else actually carries around …
Loneliness. Without my wife or dog, I would descend into a most dark place.
I’m pretty shocked by how much my mental health has tanked since my dog passed away. I knew losing her would wreck me, but I didn’t realise how much she made my life worth living.
I’m so sorry. I look regularly at my little buddy and nearly weep knowing that I’ll likely outlive him. I mean, I hope I do because he’d be crushed if I didn’t.
The thing that scares me the most is a clean windshield on my car.
Don’t get me wrong. I hate having dirt on the windshield. However, I remember a time when in summer I was in a constant battle to clean spattered insects off my windshield. Now I almost never hit an insect.
I haven’t moved. I still drive on the same roads I used to drive on. Either the insects have evolved to avoid roads, or they just aren’t there anymore.
Life on this planet is dying out, and we’re using all our technology and all our resources to allow us to pretend it isn’t. Eventually, the extinction will outpace our ability to compensate, and we’ll all start dying along with everything else.
I don’t actually believe life will cease completely. I think when enough people have died, they planet will recover. However, the millennia between the crash and the recovery will be unpleasant for anyone who manages to survive long enough to experience it. And the deaths of those who don’t survive long enough will be horrifying.
I don’t actually believe life will cease completely.
I saw some documentary thing, that claimed, that even if a huge asteroid glassed the whole planet, the heat would not be able to reach deep enough, for long enough, to kill all the microbes. So life itself may not die, until this planet is swallowed by the expanding sun. If that makes it feel any better.
Yeah, I believe life has survived worse. The pandemic showed that things recover surprisingly quickly once you eliminate people.
It may even be more possible than science believes for us to recover if we really put effort into it. However, it is far less possible that we’ll put any real effort into it before irreversibly catastrophic consequences start happening.
Oh yes, sadly we have been on a crash course for a long while now, and I do not believe we will correct it either. We should obviously not stop trying, but personally I lost hope, when people around me did not care at all, when I learned about the climate change in the early 2000s, and got really into protecting the environment and all. But I do find some solace in the thought, that life continues, even when we do not.
Drowning in a small space like underwater caving. I’m a bit catastrophic (claustrophobic). Normally no issues with water but the thought of being trapped somewhere small and watching it full up with water terrifies me. Safe to say I am never going caving or swimming in caves.
Oh and the apparently inexorable march towards fascism in the UK and the west is pretty bad too.
*claustrophobic 😅
Thanks, damn autocorrect.
I mean I was not 100% sure 😁
Severe physical pain. I’m not really afraid of death, however a gruesome and painful leadup to death is what scares me the most
Being misunderstood and I am living it everyday (neurodivergent).
For me that has come to normality so i formulate everything as precicely as possible (i still get missunderstood)
Yeah it’s not about the cliché potential of misunderstanding and already being under NTs for a few decades I figured most of it out.
However, there are other layers of communication that fail them or me since it’s inherently based on assumptions and social networks (not the technological type).
Yeah. I know. I am highly ND as well. Now even lost my job because of this missunderstanding despite giving a litteral manual with examples: “hey this is how i need you to phrase things for me to understand. And this is what i mean when i say x”
The more adaptable we are, the more it sucks 😕
This happens to me all the time. Like, whenever I go to the doctor, the receptionist will be really nice to my wife and nasty to me and I have no idea what I did!
The destruction of everything I know and love merely due too ignorance, malice and apathy. OH WAIT
I’m not scared of being dead, I’m scared of being maimed
Getting to a point of deterioration where suicide becomes a logical choice. That can be health, societal, or environmental.
Modern life, with modern politics, has been scary enough that I struggle to imagine what could scare me anymore. I’ve been homeless three times, I’ve had friends die young, I’ve come to a point of acceptance and I’m not sure if it’s healthy or a sign of being beaten down so much that acceptance is my cope.
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My biggest fear is that people are forgetting how to write actual words.
Sorry sir, my grammar broke a little there , real question though, what’s your biggest fear?
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I am impressed I was able to read that first try. Good choice of omitted letters.
The world around me becoming dystopian like in The Handmaid’s Tale. Ignorant people laugh at that because it’s fiction but, like all dystopian fiction, it’s based on things that have actually happened in history. There’s little stopping it from happening again. The country right next door to mine is already on the path to it. Some say my country isn’t far behind. There are people in Canada who support Trump
Fear? I’m already at the acceptance level for not having done shit with my life, and I’m fine with that. I have been happy and I’ve seen the world and I’ve done all the things and if other people gonna judge me because I didn’t do the same dumb shit that they did and now hate their lives and are massively in debt and worked their whole existence away, too bad.
Abandonment, by far. Fun fact: 0 fear of death.
Edit: btw OP, what is your success criteria for life?
Financial independence, not losing my loved ones, and real peace, that’s my success criteria//
Good aspirations. Hope you accomplish them.
For a time recently I felt extremely overwhelmed and fearful of the idea that in death there is nothing and your consciousness slips away into a black nothingness and everything I had ever done was completely meaningless and that my existence was for nothing.
The destruction of all life due to a runaway process, e.g. paperclip maximizer or other such maligned goal seeking program
