Ask Your Question today
| Aging | 14 | |
| Financial difficulties | 17 | |
| Being alone | 26 | |
| Dying | 22 | |
| The opinion of you others may have | 15 | |
| Mental illness | 19 | |
| turning into someone you know | 10 | |
| Physical illness | 11 | |
| The future | 20 | |
| Other ( please comment below) | 17 |
To be very specific: Alzheimer's disease.
Imagine slowly finding things harder to remember, until you can't remember anything. Slowly harder to move, until you can't move at all. Total, complete and utter dependency on someone else. You can't feed or wash or dress yourself. You can't communicate, not even with your facial expressions. You feel like a burden on whoever is caring for you, because keeping you alive absorbs their life.
But the worst bit would be during the onset. You're fine for the most part, but then you're slowly getting worse and you know it and know there is nothing you can do about it as your brain slowly shrinks. Occasionally and with steadily growing frequency you do things which remind you about your early-onset Alzheimer's, and every time it scares you to death.
That's my definition of hell. Thank God it doesn't run in my family.
If you're to believe half the people on the internet, weed is the cure for every fucking problem in the world.
I'm open to the possibility that there are benefits to regular cannabis use yet unknown, but those purported benefits should be supported by irrefutable evidence, not the bullshit or thin air most people rely on to support their claims. "Evidence suggests there may be a link between..." does not equal "Evidence proves there is a link between...".
Wait until there's proof before declaring with certainty.
After smoking pot everyday for more than a decade I can tell you that there are NO benefits to smoking it.
The only good thing about weed is that you get high, everything else is negative.
I love weed and I'll keep smoking it, but I'm not so stupid that I think inhaling smoke into ones lungs is beneficial.
It fucks your nervous system and memory, but it takes years and years. Most of the people who think it's "good for you" are teens, not old enough to have been smoking for fuck all time or with any real consistency.
That's why when I see a "weed is good for you" comment I just think "what a noob".
Because not many if any people are willing to test illegal 'drugs' on human subjects. And the long time stoners who it worked on never even knew they would have developed alzheimers.
Unfortunately, not many people willing to test illegal drugs means not much evidence, which means no proof as of yet. That means you can't make statements of certainty, only estimations and predictions. You can't proclaim "God gave us marijuana, to prevent such illnesses", or "you only need about a single puff a day to prevent Alzheimer's and preserve brain function" and be taken seriously.
It'd be brilliant if it turned out to be true, but you have to be patient and temper your language to reflect the current uncertainty, otherwise it's plain dishonesty and hyperbole.
The death of my sister or brother being the first that comes to mind. Second would be letting myself go.
I say that because I have relatives and friends who allowed themselves to be less than what they could be by letting their diagnoses (depression, arthritis, back pain etc.) define them and excuse them for dropping out of productivity and function. My worst fear is that I will end up 40, obese, chronically ill, on 7 different types of medication and living without the intention of taking personal responsibility for my actions and health.
With my siblings... I'd live with that horrible guilt for the rest of my life, knowing that somehow I could be blamed for their death.
I fear my future.
But hopeful all the same.
Intend to battle this the whole way through.. I would rather myself lose my mind and not know it, than lose my mind and know it, as I am now.
My future is very bleak in my eyes.
However, if I remain as I am, it shouldn't be too bad.
But I am slowly getting worse.
So I am unsure.
My see my future as being strange and freaky.
1. Myself.
2. Creation theory.
3. The kid from Hr puff n stuff.
4. Swimming in dark water.
5. White people like me.
6. Shopping carts.
7. People who are so liberal that they abandon all logic.
8. The "laws" of morality.
9. Deathclaws somehow coming into existence and wandering around outside my house.
10. Virgins who think they're grown ups.
Wow once I think of swimming in dark water (especially deep under the ocean, alone...), it seems super scary!!!
The thought is haunting me! lol!
11. snails
12. Elevators
13. 13
14. Smaller deathclaws somehow coming into existence and wandering around outside my house.
15. Americans
16. Dumbasses (see 15, Americans)
I forgot about 15. This all encompassing category included my points. I will renumber.
That the criminal profilers who analyze me will make some untrue or unflattering assessments.
mine is losing everything ive worked for ....i might just be able to be the first female to go in outerspace;)
Fire. Not Campfires, i like them, but when i'm imagine that the flat or the house or the school's burning down i'm very fearful.
Looking into my rear-view mirror at night and seeing a decomposed corpse that screams and kills me.
Well turning into someone i know very well its something i'd hate to be.
From the list, it's a toss up between financial difficulty and mental illness. But I'm really terrified of pool drains. It's horrible when it's over 100 degrees and I want to swim (I love swimming), but the bastards who built the pool put drains everywhere. And there's one pool near my house where if you put your head under the water you can hear a loud, mechanical hum, and I have a horrible suspicion about what's making it.
Being hated or picked on or being the focus of attention. I would die if I ever had to give a speech.
Getting to middle age and realising I'm bored with life. I fear being stuck in something repetitive and draining. I want to face a challenge every day, be it stressful or fun. Every night before I go to bed, I want to say to myself "well, today was interesting."
Death. But also, my parents dying of old age...my grandma also... And aging as everyone I once knew dies.
The number one thing I'm afraid of in my life is ever of my crush will reject me. I'm also afraid if he doesn't, that'll be unfaithful. I'm also afraid of getting bad grades, so I tend to study and read things a lot :S..
Financial difficulty. I'd rather throw everything away and start over than have to deal with massive debt.