What is your greatest fear?

[me.vicky]

Ah, Spring. My least favorite of all the seasons, because with the warm weather comes roommates insisting on having the window open, and with open windows come nesting wasps.

There is nothing on this green Earth I am more afraid of than stinging insects, and wasps are the worst. When I see them, I can't breathe, I can't think, I can barely move. It makes me want to vomit when I see them, I'm so scared.

It's not that I'm allergic to them, or even that I can remember being stung by one before. But if you had to make me guess, I'd say my fear stems from the time my Dad got his hands on a dead two-inch-long Japanese Hornet and put it in my bed when I was 12. Oh Dad, such a great prankster.

So, Escapists, my question is: what is it you fear more than anything else? What is it that incapacitates you with fear?

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Taxis. They have it out for me, I tell ya.

 

[Kortney]

Spiders!

 

[Dreltox]

wasps are the worst.

I agree. I've been attacked by those fucks. Twice. Two fucking hives, hidden so well me and the lucky bugger with me who wasn't their target didn't notice. My biggest fear is people. Like, muggers. I don't know why. But, the idea of it scares me to death D:. It's really I shame I see everyone negatively, but I think the television made that happen. Lame.

 

[Spartan X1]

I have extreme irrational fear of buzzing insects such as wasp, bees, and horseflies.
My rational fear is to die alone knowing I left no one behind to carry on my name or at least not leaving a mark in the world

 

[Scde2]

Jellyfish.

They will come for me one day.
[sub]Help //_;[/sub]

 

[noxymoron19]

That the escapist forums ever go offline

 

[redisforever]

Insects, any bloody insect (except lone ants, they're cute) will make me freak out and run like an Olympian. I can't stand them. I love the heat of summer, but I hate the life it brings. I can't even look at pictures of them. I once failed an assignment because I had to get pictures of hornets. No. I gladly failed.

 

[Ladette]

I suffer from astraphobia, a fear of thunder and lightning. To the point that I will not go outside if there's a thunderstorm. If I get caught outside when one is going on I freeze up and start crying, and even if i'm inside I shiver and whimper with every flash and bang.

It's really inconvenient, and if i'm around people I work with or don't know very well it's really embarrassing.

 

[Kae]

I was going to say it but it somehow ended up being 3 paragraphs of text so instead I'm going to say my 2nd greatest fear without explanation:
I'm afraid of showing my true self to people, even to the people I've known for all my life.

 

[ThongBonerstorm]

We have nothing to fear except fear itself. And spiders.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

My biggest phobia is heights. I... do not deal well with them. At all. They tend to reduce me to a shivering wreck.
Despite this, however, I love roller coasters.

 

[Phlakes]

Fucking death. Unless there's an afterlife. Then it's cool.

EDIT: Fucking being a modifier and not a verb, to clarify...

 

[Freshman]

Iceburg lettuce. had some once just before I got really sick, and now I can't even be in the same room as it.

 

[Paksenarrion]

That I have no respectable marketable skill.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Helplessness. I'm serious, any time where I feel even the slightest bit helpless I tend to go into a state of panic.

 

[Aur0ra145]

Snakes. The only time I ever nearly shot myself was with a snake.

I was scaling a cliff face in the deserts of Texas. I had on some battle rattle with a pack and water. Also, I had an M4 slung around my body and hanging over my chest. I was going down this cliff face and I found a little ledge. I dropped my foot into a bush and heard the "TISH TISH TISH" of a rattler wound around the damn thing. I flicked the safety off of my M4 and let loose about 20 rounds between my feet. Rattler was dead, fucking freaked me the fuck out.

TL;DR FUCK SNAKES!

 

[Tonythion]

my worst worst fear? Zombies.

DID YOU MEAN RATIONAL FEARS?! Then Spiders I guess, or anything that bites/stings me and rots my flesh. I HATE ROTTING FLESSHHHH.

 

[MuppeTeN]

Dying Alone.