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What Are You Afraid of?

We started the evening with fears of creepy crawly things. These included rats, spiders, snakes, bees, wasps and caterpillers. We had a guest creature -- a 20 pound golden brown desert turtle which everyone loved.

Next we covered phobias. Elevators, heights, water, crowds, caterpillers and dark basements were the main ones. If you want to see 1,001 phobias go to www.phobialist.com.

Finally we covered general anxieties and fears. These are generally covered in the e-question responses below. And we ended with "Beware the Jabberwocky, my son!"

JABBERWOCKY
by Lewis Carroll (from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

E-Question: What Are You Afriad Of?

E-Q Responses:

My personal fear is Anginophobia.
Remember that the poster child for fears and phobias is my favorite detective: Monk!

Microwaves!

Developing ALS; global warming; requiring a larynectomy (you know how much
I love to talk); losing my sight or hearing; being abandoned; becoming totally unable to care for myself; dying before I trully have lived.

I'm afraid of not trying even though I may fail. I'm afraid of judging too quickly so that I fail to understand. Even though this may sound philosophical and too much a pat answer it is something I always try to remember and keep as a part of me. Perhaps the fear of not doing has become greater than the fear of failure. In my life it has led me to see places and do things I wanted to that I might not have had the courage to do otherwise. It has led to new ways of thinking and new friends that otherwise might not have become a part of my life. I believe that I keep this fear in perspective and as such it has enriched my life in many ways. Some fears can be very positive as long as they are kept in perspective.

I can't think of anything I'm afraid of really, not even death. I watched a movie once that was spooky, but scared? nah.

What am I afraid of? Mostly spiders and snakes. Recently, I'm finding myself afraid of elevators!!! Its the possiblity of being stuck in them is what really scares me almost overwhems me really. I'll take the stairs whenever I need only to go a few floors. Airplanes scare me too! Saw a "shrink" about this and we came up with being out of control of the situation that has me feeling this anxiety. Seemed like a good enough answer for $300.00 co-pay dollars to me. I think I'll just face my fears as often and as well as I can. Last Feb. I flew home from Florida in that big silver "bird" and I do take the "lift" if I have company in the dam thing. Still workin' on a solo trip on either or!

My concerns include but are not limited to:
Alzheimer's (its hereditary on both sides of the family)
Losing my job / outsourcing / my company's services not being in demand years from now
Never having or seeing grandchildren
What could happen to my grown children (they are way out of town).
Needing emergency care when I'm at home alone


My biggest fear would be failing myself by letting fear govern my life, getting up every day is the reason for overcoming my fear. taking it to the next level would be going to bed blessed

Dentists and most physicians!

Driving at night.

I fear falling from a great height. I fear chronic sicknesses.

Actually I fear losing one of my children the most.

I fear Fear, itself!!!

Never being totally happy.

I think I too am afraid of never being totally happy....is there really such a thing????

I am afraid of dying alone with no one to hold my hand and kiss my cheek.

Fears can be divided into categories, I think. Real and Imagined. Real fear...for me it is RATS...they are real and totally freak me out as well as mice and any other type of rodent.
Imagined... I never thought I wouldnt be happily coupled up at the end of my life...its not over yet so I guess there is still hope! For now I am adopting Scarlet O'Hara's attitude...."I'll think about that tomorrow."

Real fear...for me it is RATS...they are real and totally freak me out as well as mice and any other type of rodent.

Being lonely.

Being left behind......

Not being good enough...

Falling in love and my heart breaking again...

Following my own intuition and not submitting to others' ideas.
Second guessing myself when my intuition is a proven.

I'm deathly afraid of spiders. So bad, that I cannot even kill them, no matter how small they may be.

I kill every insect I see..hate bugs of any kind..ugh! For me, my greatest fear and only fear in life is losing one of my children or grandchildren..it would destroy me totally. Losing other members of your family is difficult..yes...but not like kids or grandkids..that;s far worse. I seriously would not recover ever from it.

First thing that comes to mind because of summer is, bees and the like and snakes. Bees, wasps, all those, the sting hurts like heck and they are hard to run away from. I hate snakes, they're ugly and slimy lookin and they just plain scare me.

For me its the fear of something happening to my children or something happening to me before my kids are old enough to take care of themselves.

I am deathly afraid of spiders. But my biggest FEAR is of something happening to my son. He is my whole life.

Confinement - being restrained

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