What is your single biggest fear in life?

Quote from DonnaV:

actually in the spirit of total honesty....and I guess because I do suppress it...my one fear (of)...men
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Oh, fine, now you tell me...after I have embarked on my rambling discourse.

Well, you can take some comfort in the fact that, for every woman who fears men, there is probably at least one man who fears women. And so it goes...
 
Quote from Thunderdog:

Thank you for a most interesting, if somewhat tardy, response.

A few other respondents mentioned the fear of dying. And as I replied, I personally do not have a conscious fear of death in the normal course. However, I imagine that it would almost certainly arise if I suddenly found myself in physical danger or if I became gravely ill. In the meantime, if such a fear exists in me, it lies fairly dormant. Admittedly, I do drive responsibly and I avoid questionable alleys at night. However, is that simply prudence and a respect for life or an underlying fear? I suppose a case could be made either way. And either way, I'm okay with it.

What I find intriguing about your response is that you went from an apparently conscious fear of dying to no fear at all. Surely it is not that black and white, is it? Surely there are varying shades of gray within this broad spectrum. Regardless, I am baffled how someone can leap from one end of the spectrum to the other without getting any of those pesky splotches of gray on them.
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I did not lose it exactly overnight....long story...had a vision of myself dying and at the moment of death experienced a profound sense of understanding....I was given the answer to life and death....then woke up and it was gone (the universal answer that is)...damn.... hate that when it happens:p but since then haven't had the fear of death.
 
Quote from AudiQuattro:

My greatest fear, without a doubt, is that society suddenly plunges into an ultra- irrational hellhole morass ala Nazi Germany. People are weak. With a snap of the fingers your next door neighbor could be doing perverted medical expirements on elderly pensioners. Technology is moving in a direction where people's bizarrest desires and impulses are gratified and unchallenged.
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My greatest fear: Islam and the islamists.
 
Quote from trade4succes:

a very wise (and professionally trained person) once told me that every fear boils down to the fear of death. if you release that, there are no fears.
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if this fear didn't exist there would be no religion.
 
Quote from Thunderdog:

Let's take a few moments for a bit of self-indulgent introspection, by answering four questions.

1. Presently, what is your single biggest fear in life? It need not be limited to the trading arena.

2. How, and to what extent, do you think this fear has either helped or hindered you?

3. If you have found that, on balance, your fear has hindered you, what steps do you think you would need to take in order to overcome that fear?

4. If you are not presently taking these steps, what prevents you from doing so? (If, indeed, you have found that your fear serves as a hindrance.)
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1. That I will never have or have done anything to be proud of

2. It's hindered me because I set standards so high they are impossible to meet. So I always fall short of the bar. It has made me miss opportunities that I wrongly thought were'nt worth my time.

3&4. I could lower my standards, but... I cant. Then it won't be worthy of being 'proud of'.
 
Joe Campbell mentioned in a man's life (sorry ladies) there are two phases: 1. The outward journey and then 2. the inward journey

The outward journey is what you do when young, you explore and conquer. The inward journay is all about introspection and i believe death. I think it begins at midlife when you first understand your own mortality. Coming to some sort of reconciliation with death is important to being able to live the second half of your life. For most it is religion and the answer is of course immortality so as to render the fear moot. For people like me it is sort of stoic resignation and the determination to not waste the time I have left. Think of it this way, you are already the walking dead, so just feel lucky you have some borrowed time.


With all that though my single biggest fear is losing my son. I have no idea how I could find a reason to exist without him in this world. Recently a co-worker's son was shot in Iraq. The kid has a head wound and probably will not live. My fears were vicariously realized for this poor guy, terrible stuff.
 
Mine is being paralyzed in a car or motorcycle accident.

I wouldn't be able to live if I couldn't walk. I would kill myself.

I have the greatest respect and admiration for those that can live their lives in a wheelchair.

I sold my 'donor machine' as well as my 158 mph top speed car.

I guess I won't have any more nightmares and wake up in a sweat as my nightmare is being put to rest.
 
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