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Reasonable Fear
FOUND by Ellie
in Newark, Delaware
I found this in a bush on my college campus. The back of the card has Greek letters and the name "Jen", so I suppose it was part of a sorority pledge game. Or maybe Jen just really needed to get something off her chest.
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I'm really scared of diabetes.
I'm really scared of trains.
I'm really scared for the future.
I'm really scared of hellicopters too. If the blades stop churning you might as well kiss it good-bye.
Oh Randy. I had a dream one night and an old woman told me that there's no need to worry about the future. I believed her. You can too! :D
Hmm...actually, she just said there's no need for "you" to worry about "your" future, meaning "me" and "mine". Sorry Randy. Continue with your fear. Although, I'm sure she probably meant you too...maybe.
I'm really scared that death might really be the end.
Josie, me too. Although it's not as bad if I think of it as a dreamless sleep I won't wake up from. Kind of restful that way, rather than scary.
hahah jello..ur a character! dont worry randy..through out ur life u've been on overcoming obstacles and no matter what the future brings..im sure u'll overcome it as well..
P.S. PLZ DONT CORRECT MY SPELLING/GRAMMAR!!..this is the way i type..leave it as it is!
I'm really scared of clowns!
HAHAHA Jello!
Helicopters in the air near her, pictures of helicopters, or only if she is flying in a helicopter?
I'm afraid of the Eiffel Tower.
Hmmmm. I'm kind of scared of sorority girls.
But I am safe inside my helicopter (at least, safe from Jen).
(seriously though, I am very afraid of caterpillars, to the point that it could be a phobia. Ugh, childhood trauma. I wonder what happened to Jen to make her afraid of helicopters....)
I'm afraid of walking over grates in the side walk.
Maybe someone should start a new website called "Fear". People could send in their fears and others could comment on them, basically rip them apart, both for content and grammar.... OK, maybe not! :-)
Pixi I am terrified of worms and caterpillars, they are just hairy worms! I think it is a phobia since I want to hurl whenever they are near me
Im really scared of bats, trains, ambulance sirens, and cotton balls. and failing miserably at life.
I am really scared of paper towels !
I am scared of that cancer i had that one time. Scared that it'll come back. So scared that i can't muster up the courage to make an appointment for regular check-ups (well, that and too busy/disorganized).
I've got this poster of protein factor pathways in Cancer cell growth or something like that. i ripped it out of a medical journal and hung it on my bathroom wall as a sort of secular totem against cancer. It's incredibly complex. I figure if scientists know that much about cancer i might end up alright. Brings me more comfort than the indonesian mask against bad spirits that hangs over my doorway.
and Josie, i'm pretty sure death is the end. Your fears are compltely founded.
Panic!!!
Secular totems fear me. I fear that people place too much value on symbols. Scientists can help you end up alright, only if you participate.
and death is not the end. That makes this life too meaningless. If this is all there is, then what's the point?
I am really scared of many things.
Death is only the beginning!
I'm really afraid of wasps.
i'm really scared of elevators.
I fear hot dogs and the mystery of what they're made of; jello, because it's full of ground animal bones; people with guns; and people who are afraid of cotton balls.
I am really scared that Salt in the Sea has hearing problems.
oh good lord what a bunch of sissies
mona- thus the panic.
I'm really scared of what is going to happen in my future...
This reminds me of PostSecret...
i'm scared of escalators. i have nightmares about them. i think 20/20 did a special about freak escalator accidents that i watched as a kid, and i've been frightened of them ever since. and i hate to think that death is really the end too. i don't think i'd be okay to think that nothing nothing nothing happens after death. that is a scary thought..
...this reminds me of postsecret as well
BUT my biggest fear in life, is failing. failing the ones i love most. it's okay that you're scared of helicopters :)
I'm scared by spiders - especially the jumping ones.
This is like PostSecret: and I like it.
I'm really scared that I'm just a fraud and a failure...which thus, makes me fear for the future.
I'm scared that this is getting a little heavy for me at the moment.
Frankly, helicopters CAN be scary - lots of accidental deaths.
I believe that there is nothing to fear but fear itself. It is just a word created by someone who was not aware of the words hope, love, and unity.
I think SALT is really just a bitch ass dyke.
I am afraid of spinning ceiling fans. Especially when they are on in the bedroom and my kids are in bed. I never put the fan on really fast :(
Randy, I get that you are scared FOR the future, not OF the future. Me too.
I'm afraid of heights and hypodermic needles.
So death is the end. Big deal. Who says that there has to be a point to all of this? I find that fact at least as comforting as it is frightening.
I refuse to read anything typed in all caps, so I'm certainly not afraid of SALT.
Salt in the Sea is not conveying a superior persona, I think he is just becoming increasingly annoying and most people are sick of the caps lock. I am afraid of my mother, being chased, snakes, sharks, and not knowing what's in store for me.
I am really scared that no one will ever love me again.
Hello chaps – get real! We're all scared of something. This is a party game, right? You draw a piece of paper out of a hat, and whatever's written on it, you then have to act out that character trait in conversation (or questions and answers) until someone guesses it, right? Like those party scenes in 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' (Whatever happened to that programme? Funniest thing on TV ever. And I'm still in love with Josie Lawrence).
If this found had been posted last week, I would have typed "I am really scared of rollercoasters." Which was true until last Tuesday. My friends dragged me to the nearest Great America and forced me to ride all of the rollercoasters. I couldn't have been more happy. As it turns out, I love them! So I challenge you all to think twice about your fears. Who knows? Maybe you'll change your minds!
I'm afraid of slowrgev blurqueflob. And Archie comics. Reggie is one creepy motherfucker. He's probably a stalker. Para Noia, I'm afraid of spiders too, but the barking ones rather than the jumping ones. And even then, it's only those belonging to certain people.
Im afraid of sponges.
ps. Salt in the sea im rofl
I'm scared of lots of holes next to each other. I think my fear stemmed from that photoshopped picture of the breast with the lotus seeds in it. O_O
Just to make you all laugh....I have a paralyzing fear of hills. Even a small slope with no handrail scares the crap out of me! And if you aim an elastic band at me, just watch how fast I duck....don't know where these fears came from, but I think at least the fear of helicopters is a bit more valid. After all, you don't hear of many "hill crashes" or "elastic malfunctions".
I am afraid of spiders, all spiders. They are the creepiest things ever. I am also afraid of being stopped on or under bridges. I am also afraid of something else but I don't remember what it is.
I'm scared of words that are more than one beat long. It makes it hard to talk to folks. I would say that word that starts with "S" but it has 3 beats.
I think this one is rather funny, as I am reading it while at my place of work -- an airport! :D
I'm terrified of spiders and beyond terrified of sharks! If I were ever stranded in the ocean (shipwreck, plane wreck, etc.) it would take about 10 seconds for me to go into cardiac arrest. Scariest. shit. ever.
But more importantly, did Jo leave, or just change names? Please Jo, either come back, or clue me in on your new name!! I can't be the only Okie here! :(
I thought SALT was a girl this whole time!
There is plenty to be scared of. Freak accidents number the highest on my list. Let's ride a gondola- remember Italy and the plane that took those people to their death? Bungee anyone? Umm...nuff said. Waiting for the tragic London Eye accident that will prove my avoidance merely practical.
Facetious, I'm unprecedentedly apologetic to become privy to your debilitating phobia. Hopefully, incrementally implemented therapeutic encounters with several psychologists can alleviate the discomfort caused thereby.
I thoroughly appreciate your admirable perseverance, demonstrated by the undeniable reality that you have continued to peruse this excruciatingly multi-syllabled dissertation. I'm honestly praying I haven't encouraged you to commit auto-defenestration via my repeated overuse of unnecessarily lengthy letter formations.
Your brother in Antidisestablishmentarianism,
-Flargy
P.S. STFU
I too am afraid of walking on grates in sidewalks. Gives me a bit of a task in Memphis and New Orleans, and certainly earns me many odd looks, as I must leap down the street.
Flargy, I love you. Did you write that with a dictionary next to your computer or do you have those words in your head? Either way, I want you to have my love child. Let me know if you want him.
Personally, I'm scared of... a lot of things, but mostly people who can't tell the difference between there, their, and they're and to, two and too. I'm not even a grammar freak. It's just irritating. The fear comes from the fact that the schools are totally ignoring it.
That's the scary part.
I'm afraid of being drunk in front of my judgmental Christian friends because I might slip and tell them the truth...I'm not a virgin.
I'm afraid of white, fluffy things.
I think this is my favourite find yet; it's fun to read about everyone's fears.
I think Salt's afraid to be quiet cuz then he'll be able to hear himself think. Also, he may annoy people so that he can't get close enough to someone to get hurt.
I am afraid that my work will always be so boring that I'll have to read websites to avoid falling asleep.
Car washes, those ones where you stay in your car and it pulls your car thru.
I would categorize myself as "deeply concerned" about helicopters. My brother goes to Kuwait in a few weeks, and they do a lot of getting around that way. And we all know how well our helicopters have performed in the desert.
m rlly scrd f vwls - crpy nsty lttl lttrs - rrrrggghhh!!
I'm afraid of talking in my sleep for fear of telling my spouse my dirty little secrets and indescretions.
Lizard Bits, I'm not sure if I want your love child...has he had all his shots? Was he never meant to be, born into poverty, always second-best, different from the rest?
Yes, all those words are floating around in my head, along with myriad other random shit (like Diana Ross & The Supremes lyrics).
Drowning, just because you've been around the block once or twice doesn't mean you have to put up with any crap from your judgenmental Christian bitch friends. I bet Mother Theresa saw some hot & heavy action in her day, and you don't see them picking on her, do you? Maybe you should go bless some hungry kids so your "friends" will get off your back about the whole humping thing.
grt (Gerty? Greta? Gorteau?), that's awesome. And by the way, AAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUandso
you guys dont seem to understand Salt's humor. personally i think he is hilarious.
anyway. i am scared of republicans' minds. how do they believe that stuff?! and how do they get away with so much? it frightens me terribly.
I'm afraid I'll never sort out this whole gender mess. Who am I????
I just got back from Delaware today! I think we really need to see the other side to get the full picture here. Perhaps it is not what it seems. It looks like something more cryptic to me. I am afraid of "Hellicopters too, especially Black Military style ones. You have to watch out for those they are everywhere. Be especially worried if they say "Halliburton" or "Blackwater" on the side.
I'm terrified of anamatronic things. I'd like nothing more than to take a flame thrower to those creepy displays the Mall puts up during Christmas every year, you know, with the happy little elves and the moving Santa and the train going round and round the reindeer that move their heads up and down???
AHHHH!!
Oh, I also am afraid of dancing hamsters.
I'm impressed with Flargy's ability to write in the margin. I really am.
n f yr gsss ws rght, flrgy!
bt nw m cwrng n crnr ...
whmpr ...whmpr ...whmpr ...
im afraid of things pointing at my face. even if theyre at a distance.
Flargy you are very funny, but desperately in need of a hug.
I like Salt. He spices things up. He kinda reminds me of "Jakovasaur" on South Park. He too was loud, but loved by many.
Rock on with yer bad self Salt!
I am extremely terrified of needles. Of all types. Even those tiny ones they use to do the finger prick test with at the doctor's office.
And I can't really walk over grates in the sidewalk either...or on glass (glass stairways, walkways, etc...it just doesn't seem like it should be possible to hold you up!)
I am so afraid when when I get promoted the people I have to manage will be just like HER. I don't know if I can handle it.
(My sister had "hooked on phonics" and they identified both Y and W as a semi-vowel. I have never seen W described anywhere else as such. Just a heads up, parenthetically, because I don't feel that its terribly important)
in the meantime, group hug for talking about our fears.
Rex, please confirm that the page that you ripped from the medical journal did not come from a public library. I'm scared of what I might do if I ever catch in the act one of the dirtbags that do that sort of thing. I might actually shout inside the library. And dog-eared pages in library books, what's with that?
Meantime, I have terminal cancer, and I kind of like knowing from what I will die, unless that proverbial bus hits me first.
I'm afraid of cotton balls. I know. It doesn't make any sense. But they give me shivers down my spine and I HATE them.
I, like many, am afraid of spiders. The other day I was driving down the street and I saw a leaf on the sidewalk. Out of the corner of my eye, however, it looked like a giant, green spider and I went into panic mode until I realised it was a leaf. Then I realised that even if it had been a spider I was in a car, much bigger, heavier, and faster. I'm not really sure where that came from. It is almost a phobia. I do love helicopters though.
I'm afraid I will lose my job and end up living in a refrigerator box under a bridge. Who knows why....
I'm scared of cotton balls too! Especially that creepy crunchy sound they make when they get near your ears *shudder*
Ticks. I am terrified of ticks. I am mildly afraid of the dark. Terrified of UFO's and aliens (I watched the first ten minutes of Signs and then bugged out before the first alien even showed itself).
The cotton ball phobia seems to be relatively common. I was recently looking at a list of weird phobias and their names, and I showed it to a few co-workers. One of them told me about her fear of cotton balls. It wasn't on the list, and no matter how many sites we searched, we couldn't find a name for it.
I don't like the feeling when you touch a cotton ball, but I wouldn't say I'm afraid of it. It just feels kind of creepy, like the feeling in your feet when you walk on fresh snow.
salt in the sea, we must meet and combine evil forces!
My sister is also freaked out by cotton balls. When she made me mad I would put them under her sheets at the bottom of her bed so her feet would touch them when she got in. Oh, she also hates feet and things touching them.
I am afraid of death, I actually don't really believe i'm going to die. If I did believe it i'd be too freaked out to live.
Also not fond of jumping spiders if they are jumping towards me. Oh, and edges, but only combined with heights. Not height by itself or edges by themselves, but the combo. I will freeze and it will take the fire department to get me down.
So, i realized that my fear of cancer is in a different catagory than most here. Cuz it's rational, even if my reaction against it is irrational.
For irrational fears:
Large fish (when i'm swimming deep lake water sometimes i panic in anticipation of being swallowoed whole, i once even puked)
Running dogs (i mentally prepare myself for kicking them in the head, and can't do it)
Beautiful women (they can really crush my soul, let me tell you)
The journal i tore the poster from was junk mail.
I'm afraid of catheterization, including urinary cath, pic lines (peripherally inserted central catheters) and angioplasty. I realize they are fairly common and generally safe, but I get a strange, semi-electric, almost poisoned sensation across my chest from armpit to armpit when I think about them or witness the procedures being done to someone else.
In a lighter vein (heh-heh), midgets on TV give me the creeps, but I think I chose that one consciously just to be funny.
I believe the fear of cotton balls is called gossyphobia (not to be confused with glossophobia, which is the fear of public speaking). How utterly amazing that half a dozen commenters either experience it or know someone who does. Am I just being gullible?
Im afraid that you are all utterly insane and could be entered into pychiatric wards with good reason. The only thing worth fearing is people because it is people who create disaster, death and destruction. It is people who fear and who in fear do stupid things. The only thing we can reasonably fear is people who are afraid.
Nuh-uh, A. Really big fish can bite you for no good reason. Like randomly. You're just swimmin around and then, CHOMP! they gotcha!
Also, you've obviously never had half your face ate off by a dog.
Also, human beings don't cause no Tsunami's or hurricanes and that shit can be pretty scary too.
You are all kindsa wrong. i bet you are one of those terminally disaffected whiney leftists that need a good kick in the pants to start actually doing shit instead of just whining about it.
If so, there is one human being you oughta be afraid of, that's me, cuz i got my pants kicking feet on.
Rex, my secretary has that same fear of large sea creatures, which is bizarre for her since we are in freaking INDIANA...there isn't an ocean for 1000 miles. She can't even watch "Finding Nemo" because of the sea creatures in it. I guess the fear extends to animated fish as well as real ones.
Lucy , I totally understand the cotton ball thing . I have regular fears like anyone , but the papertowel thing is my irrational fear .I can't get near them , unless there's water on my hands . God forbid they get anywhere near my teeth , I just got the chills writing that . I feel like they are going to dry me up completely.
I'm afraid of mass fear leading to a mass mentality.
Nothing happens after death, just like nothing happens before birth. Thank non-existant god. Worried? Welcome to the human mind and it's irrational longing for a rational world. Again, I envoke Sisyphus.
M
I found this over two years ago and had forgotten all about it. Let me just say how delighted I am to see this discussion sparked. Fear is a unifying experience; we can relate to the feeling, no matter what the object may be. Perhaps we should all be a little more honest about these things.
Jen, I am afraid of whales. Thank you for sharing.
I am scared that more passion, research, discussion and voting occurs for American Idol than for American leadership.
Celebrity Worship Crisis in America: Your fear is totally rational, and therefore not a phobia. That's a fear you only want to get over when things actually change for the better.
I am really afraid of bananas.... mostly small children with bananas
I'm afraid of the ayeaye's extremely long and skinny finger....and chalk. I'm afraid of chalk.
I have nightmares about helicopters, elevators, and orcas. I grew up in San Diego, so that explains orcas (Sea World and all, commercials, what not). Helicopters, elevators? Your guess is as good as mine.
im scared of being forgotten