What is Your Greatest Fear?
Reach down deep. Take your time. Think about this.
A friend sent one of those “getting to know you” e-mails, and this question was on it: What is your greatest fear?
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My first reaction is – whoa! That is a VERY personal question! But I shared my answer with her.
One of the reasons we share when we blog, I think, is to connect with one another, to make this world a less lonely place. When we are going through a hard time – and don’t be fooled, no matter how good, how together, we look on the outside, we ALL go through hard times – it helps to know that we are not the only person in the world who has ever gone through this, whatever this may be.
There are things we don’t talk about. From time to time, you find a friend you can really really trust, and you take a chance. What a relief! You discover, if you are lucky, that maybe he or she has been there, too. At the very worst, you have someone who knows what you have suffered. It can be years down the road that they come back to you and say “I’m there now – can you help me through it?” And two people are less alone, and your suffering has not been for nothing; it has equipped you to walk this path with your friend, and lighten the load a little.
So here is is: my greatest fear is to die a meaningless, stupid death.
I don’t want to die on a Kuwait highway saying “oh sh$t” as I see some doped up, testerone-loaded, out-of-control driver barreling straight into me.
I don’t want to die as a random, unchosen victim of terrorist attack, like 9/11, or Pan Am 103.
I don’t want to trip over my high heels and break my neck falling down the stairs. (My own stupidity!)
I wouldn’t mind dying a heroic death, but my preference is to die quietly, prepared, even eager to meet my Creator. But my terror is to die too soon, for no good reason, as the result of someone’s stupidity.
So. I’ve taken the risk, early on this Thursday morning. Step up to the plate. Take a deep breath. Even if you’ve never commented before, take a risk, here, now. (Regular commenters, welcome!) Share your greatest fear.
What is your greatest fear?
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dieing a stupid death as you said,….
and roaches.
i really hate those damned things!
they shouldnt have made ‘snakes on a plane’ it shoulda been ‘killer roaches on a plane’.
my biggest fear is losing the few people i love, i dnt want to mourn anyone, i’d rather go first
Ditto princess.
But if I am allowed to further expound on the greatest fears some of my close associates at work share with me, they would read something like this :
1) Fear of getting caught out; blogging on the job.
2) Many of us have come to relish the anonymity conferred by a blog. Once the cover is blown there might possibly be hell to pay for and on some level we each can relate to this.
3) Fear of falling madly for the wrong sort of person – a gay besotted by a plainly heterosexual man is a case in point.
or,
4) Fear of Kuwait turning into another Saudi Arabia or Iran overnight
5)
Dying and finding out that I have failed to live…my dreams and my life.
Dying all on my own – and nobody cares.
Dying and realising that I have to regret something.
Dying without finding my true north.
silke 🙂
I fear being dead – of having my consciousness snuffed out and not-being. Oh, how I fear this – and hence live the sad life of one with too little faith.
being berried alive
SKUNK – Roaches are very creepy, very filthy, ugh!
Princess – AdventureMan (my husband) says the same thing.
Jumping Translocation – What is really scary is number 5 . . . makes you think like “is it so bad he can’t even write it?” or . .. “did he get caught blogging and unable to finish his entry?”
Silke – Oooooh, all BIG fears. but I can help with True North – isn’t that where you look for which side of the tree the moss is growing on, and where the moss is growing, that is true north? Errr . . . hmmm. . . .wonder if that is true, and if true, if it is also true in the southern hemisphere?
Oh! Little Diamond – sending you a BIG hug. I think you will be in for a very happy surprise. Why would there not be conservation of spirit matter, just as energy and elements?
Spontaneousnessity – very very scary. I am a little claustrophobic, are you? That is a terrible fear.
My greatest fear would be dying without realizing the goals and dreams I have set for myself.
To regret the life you’ve lived is worse than dying in and of itself.
I agree, Kinan, to die regretting NOT doing things you had dreamed of doing is as bad as regretting having done bad things. I hope you are doing OK. We miss you!
I dont fear death (@ the moment), I only fear what happens aftr death – the consequences of my life!
My greatest fear is not living the life God has for me.I dont want to die knowing I didnt do all that i could have
Al, I agree. We are all created for a purpose and it would be a great loss not to fulfill our purpose.
my greatest fear s death !
not just bcos i dnt wnt to be departed wd the one i love .
but becos i am afraid i myt not be the hands of god wen i die.
Hezir – it is not too late. Get right with God! Make that choice now. We never know when our time will come.