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Post by jungseunghoon16 on Oct 17, 2015 18:46:31 GMT
I guess, I'll follow with Christopher and keep this up so that other people can continue.
It seems that the essential question for Quarter 2 is still about fear and I wanted to know what you guys feared.
For me, I have the fear of several things. These things can be both physical and psychological depending on what it is.
I have a tremendous amount of fear against spiders, or anything that has more than four legs. It's disgusting, I hate them so much, and I am scared of them.
I also fear loss. Many would think that if you lose something, you can replace it with the same thing. However, what if this "something" is irreplaceable?
Can you really replace the loss of a person? a feeling? or even honour. You can't actually replace something like honour because it is something that can be achieved by accomplishing something. Sure, you can achieve another type of honour by doing a different thing but you can't receive the same amount of satisfaction or pride once you lose it.
What do you guys fear and do you really think that that loss can be replaced?
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Post by melody on Oct 17, 2015 19:35:45 GMT
I fear changes. I hate when things change and confuse me. More deeply, I fear because I'm not used to it and it makes me nervous.
I hate when I have to adopt something new. What if I can't adopt it very well? What if I don't fit in that place? What if I figured I suck at this one?
Changes make me unconfident. However, there's some parts when I like it. I hate changes but, I'm proud of myself when I overcome it.
Changes make me challenge and it makes me adventurous. I know I have to overcome it, but I'm still a bit afraid about it.
Loss can never ever be replaced. When you lose something, you can replace with a different thing, no matter if it's a same species or same material, it's going to be different every time.
Your wedding ring, if you lose it, you cannot replace it. Even though, you replace it with the same exact design, it's still not going to be the ring that shared the moment on your wedding.
It's not going to be the wedding ring you put it on your mate at that moment. Same thing with people, you cannot replace anybody.
Even though, you have lots of friends, each individuals will differ and mean to you in a different way and they're still going to be all the people you need and you love.
Some loss can make us happy, such as losing your weight or reducing your stress or somethings like that.
However, when loss comes to things and people, it's probably going to make us sad and furious which we won't like.
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Post by Tharu on Oct 18, 2015 3:07:25 GMT
I agree with melody's idea, where she said that the fear changes. Fear is something that you feel vulnerable towards the unknown. I am scared of darkness, because i feel that there might me something dangerous in the dark, it is all because i cant see anything in the dark, but at the same place in the light i would never feel anything, because i can see anything. Fear changes, when you get used to that fear. I heard about this guy who used to be scared of heights and he wanted to get rid of it, so what he did was he experienced heights more often and guess what, now his hobby is climbing world's tallest buildings and stuff. So as i said before when you get used to the fear, you won't feel any.
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Post by graceyichen on Oct 18, 2015 3:21:23 GMT
I fear aging.
I can have very different thoughts when I'm in different "modes", but most of the time I think of aging as the ultimate evidence that life is miserable.
You can't pause in this game. In the song, lost stars, "God, tell us the reason youth is wasted on the young", I would like to know too.
In our youth, everything is confusing. As we grow older, even if we dont figure it out which is the case throughout our entire existence, we gotta tell ourselves, okay get it together you're not a kid anymore, and start doing something to survive. And then when you get older, and you dont have as much fear anymore because you're gonna die soon anyway, you think, shoot I should've been a soccer player I love soccer. But you can't. You grew old.
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Post by Emily on Oct 18, 2015 4:11:59 GMT
I fear the future. I am scared of what may or may not come in the time ahead of us. We might all die from North Korea bombing, or an earthquake could kill us all, or the world might come to an end. There are so many possibilities for any kind of negative predicament to occur, and that is what scares me the most over all my other fears.
I guess you could say that the future is the unknown, because we don't know what the future may have in store for us. But the future is different from the unknown in that although it can be something we fear, we can also look forward to the future too, because there may be a good fortune in store for us. We could win the lottery (very small chance), or achieve your dream job, or even find your future husband/wife. These are all things that we can look forward to, but with the rewards can also come trouble at any time in our life.
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Post by jonah21 on Oct 18, 2015 7:07:29 GMT
I fear time and how it continues. This relates to some of the different replies given and I agree with them. Nothing lasts forever, and for that reason, I fear time. No matter how much we want to go back to change something or just stop time in general, time will continue. It's never going to stop. I personally have so many moments I want to go back to just to change the outcome of. But all I'm left with right now is regret. I feel that we're under the control of time. It's like we do as it says.
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Post by Jooyoung on Oct 18, 2015 9:17:26 GMT
I fear of what will come after death. The uncertainty of whether there is afterlife or not and the fact that I won't be able to see, smell, touch, hear, and taste the world anymore...it is just terrifying. Where do I end up? What happens to me? Will I be forgotten and be a nobody? Do I get to reborn as a new life? The more I think about what is to come after death, the more smaller I feel like compared to the universe. I feel intimidated by the world.
Another fear I have that is less dark(?) is acrophobia and entomophobia. I HATE looking down from a tall building. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE all kinds of small crawling or flying insects. For this reasons, I have never in my life ridden a gyro drop and I scream every time I see cockroaches.
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Post by christopher on Oct 18, 2015 9:30:31 GMT
What I fear is the fear of bees haha. I really don't know why, but whenever I see a big bee I always tend to run away. For other fears, I particular do not have any fear. But there might be something that I do fear but I just don't realize that I fear. Well is this possible to happen? - fearing something when you do not know what you fear. I guess this is just a natural instinct of mine? Anyways, I guess the only thing I fear are bees  |
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Post by juliaj on Oct 18, 2015 9:31:02 GMT
If phobias are meant to be irrational fears, I have climacophobia; that is, the fear of climbing stairs (not so much normal ones like at school but very much narrow or uneven or steep or floating or long or any ones out of the norm). It's a silly fear and I don't know why I have it, but it's there. However, it's not a phobia that stops me from using the stairs ever, because even if my heart rate starts increasing and my breathing gets shallow, I'm on those stairs for a reason, so I have to keep going. So even if I'm always pushing through it, it's still there, and I think that's what fear is. It's a very pessimistic view, but fear is something we can't shake off, otherwise it's just a very strong type of dislike. But it's what's makes us human and what keeps us alive in the end, so we kind of need it.
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Post by ETypeRegymon on Oct 18, 2015 11:07:01 GMT
I have lot of things that annoy me, but fear... I guess messing up comes to mind. The overflowing sense of disappointment that I have whenever I let a large mistake slip by is pretty bad, but it's worse just thinking how others judge that mistake. You can't hit reset and just try again in real life, everything's stuck moving forward. And one slip can snowball into another mistake and you realize there's next to no time to fix it.
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Post by sunnyp on Oct 18, 2015 12:24:36 GMT
If phobias include things that one disgustingly hate. I would say I am very scared of caterpillars. I don't know if I fear them. I get shivers and I look away when I see them. I feel like this is more "disgust" than "fear". I can list bunch of things that I'm disgusted by but honestly I cannot think of anything that I fear. Maybe I can't tell the difference between fear and disgust or I just don't fear much? Anyways, I also really hate very big and open indoors. When I'm in a room, I close all the doors and I prefer smaller rooms. However, it's not like I break down when a door is open, I just feel lightly uncomfortable being in a room with the door open.
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Post by toomuchchanmin on Oct 18, 2015 13:00:47 GMT
I am still sometimes afraid of the dark when I'm alone in my home honestly, which I'm pretty sure a lot of people are like. I also fear maggots after a certain occasion where I encountered them in food waste, because they's just plain grose. I also fear the future like everyone else because we hate not being sure about what is coming towards us.
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Post by mayurika98 on Oct 18, 2015 13:13:12 GMT
I have some weird fears like being afraid of not falling asleep. This is something that keeps me up for hours at night. I don't have time to question my existence throughout the daytime so when I get in to bed I have plenty of time to ask questions. I just lie awake asking questions about what happens after I die and how it might feel like if someone really close to me puncooles away. I imagine it so much that sometimes I don't go to sleep at all. It's hard to tell what I'm really afraid of, but I think its mostly not knowing whats to come.
I probably come across many situations where I had to replace something that I lost. I think as it is less valuable it is easier to replace. It's hard to imagine what it would be like to lose someone close to you.
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Post by timmy on Oct 18, 2015 13:19:41 GMT
I fear the present time. There are some people who are afraid of changes, and these people tend to be content with their present life. But I am not. I am more scared of continuing my life this way. Of course, there are some enjoyments in my life right now; however, I would rather change my life 180 degrees. Maybe it is more right to say that I fear consistency in life. If so, I would have nothing to look forward to. I feel that (it may sound arrogant) I am too talented to stay at my life as it is. I want more. Not changing means losing hope for me.
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Post by andrewcho77 on Oct 18, 2015 13:50:32 GMT
I fear tomorrow. I don't even know what I'm going to do tomorrow. What happens if I die tomorrow or one of my friends die. I hate tomorrow because changes might happen and everyone can change. I love the moment RIGHT NOW. I am enjoying my life right now but tomorrow stuff might happen and I won't feel the same as today. I wish today would stay forever but it becomes yesterday and I will get caught on the past. I believe that loss could not be replaced because if you lose your mother HOW CAN YOU REPLACE HER? If you get a stepmom, you probably won't think her as a mom. You can't replace loss even the ipad you got it from your grandma. That Ipad had a sentimental value and it cannot be replace forever. So I believe you can't replace loss.
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