Fears

[Azarath]

I don't fear death, everything dies eventually, so I don't mind.

I fear darkness. I hate being alone in the dark. I'm ok as long as I know someone is with me, or near me.
I fear that everyone will leave me.
I fear that I will never be loved by someone other than my family.

Those are my fears (damn it felt goos to get that off my shoulders!)

[BlueThunder]

I fear being hated by everyone.

[BlueThunder]

I fear no one else is on but me.

[AuraTwilight]

Hey Blue, knock off the doubleposting. Just edit your first post.

[nightmare975]

Hey Aura he's new here! Cut him some slack!

[AuraTwilight]

That's why I'm telling him now so a mod doesn't rip into him. Did I come off offensive?

[nightmare975]

Did I come off offensive?

YES!

[AuraTwilight]

Well I didn't mean to. I was trying to be friendly.

[nightmare975]

I have fear of hating myself.

[Azarath]

I'm not worried about this fear anymore.

I fear that I will never be loved by someone other than my family.

[V_Translanka]

Perhaps a city is a living thing. Each city has its own personality, after all.

Los Angeles is not Vienna. London is not Moscow. Chicago is not Paris. Each city is a collection of lives and buildings and it has its own personality.

So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.

I do not fear cities sleeping, stretched out unconscious around their rivers and estuaries, like cats in the moonlight. Sleeping cities are tame and harmless things.

What I fear...is that one day the cities will waken. That one day the cities will rise.

-Old Man (The Sandman)

[Lord J Esq]

I'm not worried about this fear anymore.

I fear that I will never be loved by someone other than my family.

Oh, give it four months or so.

[SilentMartyr]

My one fear is kind of similar to Aitrus': The fear of losing my mind. But mine is not necessarily just through insanity (in fact, if it developed naturally out of me, that wouldn't trigger the fear), but through any outside factor interfering with my being. That's why I never drink any alcohol, and one of many reasons I'll never do other drugs.

I never thought of it as a fear, just as something I thought crazy to do (and crazy that so many people do it). It bothers me when people advise people to drink some before a party to loosen up; I just don't see why people would voluntarily want their minds to be controlled...

Why do you think it is crazy?

[Lord J Esq]

My one fear is kind of similar to Aitrus': The fear of losing my mind. But mine is not necessarily just through insanity (in fact, if it developed naturally out of me, that wouldn't trigger the fear), but through any outside factor interfering with my being. That's why I never drink any alcohol, and one of many reasons I'll never do other drugs.

I never thought of it as a fear, just as something I thought crazy to do (and crazy that so many people do it). It bothers me when people advise people to drink some before a party to loosen up; I just don't see why people would voluntarily want their minds to be controlled...

Why do you think it is crazy?

Because one's mind is oneself. There is no distinction between the two. Abandoning our will to the influence of an intoxicating substance is almost the stupidest choice a person can make, in character terms. The world can throw boatloads and dumptruckfuls of shit at us, and all we can do is deal, but as long as we're in control of ourselves there is always a way ahead...come what may.

Or, to put it less figuratively, everything about who we are and what we do, begins with our state of mind.

[SilentMartyr]

My one fear is kind of similar to Aitrus': The fear of losing my mind. But mine is not necessarily just through insanity (in fact, if it developed naturally out of me, that wouldn't trigger the fear), but through any outside factor interfering with my being. That's why I never drink any alcohol, and one of many reasons I'll never do other drugs.

I never thought of it as a fear, just as something I thought crazy to do (and crazy that so many people do it). It bothers me when people advise people to drink some before a party to loosen up; I just don't see why people would voluntarily want their minds to be controlled...

Why do you think it is crazy?

Because one's mind is oneself. There is no distinction between the two. Abandoning our will to the influence of an intoxicating substance is almost the stupidest choice a person can make, in character terms. The world can throw boatloads and dumptruckfuls of shit at us, and all we can do is deal, but as long as we're in control of ourselves there is always a way ahead...come what may.

Or, to put it less figuratively, everything about who we are and what we do, begins with our state of mind.

You make it sound like the person is completely different when they are under the influence. If anything the person is more "themself" in this inebriated state, for they are less inhibited by thier fears. Whether this is for good or for worse is dependent on the person.