- Letting people in
- Success
- Being powerless
- Being vulnerable
- Failure/ineptitude/imperfection
- Not being in control
- Losing my loved ones
- Not being able to help everyone
- Being loved
- Being hurt
- Being seen
- Accidentally hurting people
- Regret
- Social situations
- Darkness
- Human nature
- Trusting my intuition
- Disappointing my loved ones
- Being unfulfilled when I die
- Things not going the way I need them to
- Dying alone
- Authority figures
- Negative feelings, emotions, thoughts, etc.
- I should become their master, not their captive.
- Creepy strangers
- Statistically speaking, I'm far more likely to be maimed/tortured/brutally dismembered by someone I know. Factual, though not entirely comforting.
- Animals that are funny-looking but harmless
- Ostriches, emus, turkeys, rodents, fish, lizards, possums, aardvarks, armadillos, nearly every creature in the Galapagos & Australia, etc.
- Accidentally offending people
- I should do everything in my power to respect the feelings, perspectives, and beliefs of others, but I shouldn't become afraid to speak for the mere possibility that someone out there might not be thrilled with what I have to say.
jun 5 2011 ∞
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