It's time again for the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews.…
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Things That Scare Me
It’s time again for the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews.
Today’s topic is: Things That Scare Me
This list today could be long and varied. I have a ridiculously vivid imagination and am a natural born worrier, so I spend a lot of my life moderately anxious.
The usual things don’t frighten me. I’m not afraid of snakes or spiders or bats or rats. I will and have handled all those things barehanded (except the bats … largely because wild ones could carry rabies). My SIL was helping us stack wood once, and we came across a garter snake. She was terrified and refused to come near the pile of wood again. And it got me to thinking: what am I scared of enough that I’m virtually incapacitated.
And I couldn’t think of a thing. I’m not a huge fan of yellow jackets, but when you’re working with fresh cut wood, they tend to swarm the area, so you just take a deep breath and deal with it.
That said… there is one thing that terrifies me more than any other. There was a time, years ago, when my BIL was living with us for a couple of months while waiting to get his pregnant wife moved to the area. I’d only just had my kid (she was about a year or so old) and he asked me, “What’s it like being a parent?”
My response? “You’re low key afraid all the time.”
And it was true. At least for me. Always, in the back of my mind, is the abject terror that something will happen to my kid. And, I have to say, I don’t know how parents survive the loss of a child. I’m not a nurturing person. I’m not even a big fan of children. I wasn’t sure I’d ever have any, and ended up only have the one (which is enough, since she’s just awesome). But there isn’t a thing I wouldn’t do for her. And when you hear people say “I’d throw myself in front of a bullet for her.” it’s true. I would, without hesitation. I don’t think I could survive losing her.
So, what am I afraid of? That. Everything is just background noise.
Great post! I think we’re always more afraid for our kids than for ourselves. My post is here.
Absolutely … and you know me. I’m a worrier anyway, so it’s massively multiplied for her, lol!
YES. THIS. Every time the tot drives off to school, I’m panicked. I know he’ll be okay (at least I hope so because I trust him), but I don’t trust everyone else. So yes, this.
OMG, when she first started driving!! Just adds another fear to the pile.
This was a good post. Thanks for stopping by mine earlier today.
You’re welcome! 🙂
I so agree with you about the constant worry, and it never ends even when they’re adults. Grandchildren just add to that worry.
The love we feel for offspring is unbelievable and amazing. Who’d have ever guessed? Thanks for stopping by!
Wow, great post. Yep, every parents nightmare is losing a child.
Here’s a list of my fears.
https://www.tenastetler.com/lsrs-wednesdays-blog-challenge-things-that-scare-me/
Thanks for stopping by!
This is one reason I get super scared when I think of having kids someday!! I was with my sister at the hospital for days when she was in labour for her first child and had a still-birth. I saw how her face became hopeless and how broken she was… And with me being all alone with her till her husband can make it back to town and having to deal with my own loss and hers all alone probably scar me for life. I never want to go through that again.
Here is mine
https://diaryofablackcitygirl.wordpress.com/2019/10/30/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-meme-things-that-scares-me/
Wow … I can’t even imagine. I think you die a little when you lose a child. Coming back from that must be unbelievable hard.
Being a parent really is its own special sort of fear.
My answer is here
No truer words…
I agree. I worry about my daughter all the time. And I get afraid for her when I hear something horrible on the news.
Agree completely! Thanks for stopping by.
Good post. I don’t have children myself, but I can easily imagine how scary this would be.