Things I Fear is a community-driven website that discusses everything relative to the word “Fear”. We bring your scariest thoughts to the surface and discuss them in a way that allows you to see them in a completely different perspective: Poorly written satire with just a hint of helpful advice.
Look your Fear right in the metaphorical eyes and laugh in its equally metaphorical face!
‘Tis the season to suddenly realize you are afraid of that jolly, obese man who knows where you live because he watches you 24/7. Fear of Santa is real. Let’s put it this way: Would you let your best friend climb onto your roof, slide down the chimney, walk around your house and leave mysterious […]
You step up to the podium as a wave of silence sets in over the crowd. You take a deep breath, looking down at your notes one last time. Dozens of eyes staring at you, quietly hoping you make a mistake. Fear of Public Speaking is one of the most common Fears out there. You
For the longest time, I didn’t know cars could be driven any other way but automatically. I thought you pushed the gas to go faster and the brake to slow down and that was how cars worked. Changing gears was just something that happened along the way. Of course, I’m also the person who literally
I have no idea what possessed me to write this. Probably because I was watching a re-run of Friends last night and it made me think of that terrible move Leprechaun starring Jennifer Aniston as a painfully oblivious girl who meets the local Leprechaun because a mentally-challenged kid opens a chest that the Leprechaun was
Commitment is probably the scariest concept imaginable. Just knowing that as soon as you say yes to something, you could be stuck with it for a long, long time. Now, this could be something reasonably small like marriage. Or this could be something extreme like actually sticking to a New Year’s resolution for more than
Thankfully, I’ll never have to worry about this Fear. However, some people live everyday of their life worrying about the Fear of Becoming Famous. Whether it happens because you won the lottery and invested your money in preventing cats from getting stuck in trees or because you accidentally stumbled onto an ancient civilization that seemed
Some call it the witching hour, some the demons hour, to some it’s known as dead time. Despite what you may call it, 3:15am is still widely regarded as the most terrifying time. It is at this moment that the gap that divides the living from the dead becomes so narrow that the line is
Quick Definition: You buy something and you regret buying it after it’s too late to take it back or do anything else about it. That’s some of what Fear of Buyer’s Remorse can involve. Slightly longer Definition: You invest a large amount of money in something because you think it’s a good idea or got
We’ve all heard the horror stories of someone in a commercial having their identity stolen because their house got robbed or they wore their Social Insurance Number on their T-shirt, but few of us have ever actually experienced identity theft in the real world. Most of us live our lives with the old saying “They
With a name like Triskaidekaphobia, it’s no wonder so many people have a Fear of the Number 13. Whether you Fear the Number 13 for religious reasons, superstitious beliefs, or because that’s just what all the cool people are doing these days, the phobia itself has been around for a long time. 13 has been