what’s your biggest fear, not like spiders or heights, the real one

mine’s dying without ever actually making it, like looking back one day and feeling like i failed at life overall

curious what everyone else actually carries around …

  • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org
    2·
    15 hours ago

    I was 9ish and it was my first time at the beach so I didn’t know anything about undercurrents. The days before were very stormy. So even though I was close to the beach I wasn’t able to get out. Whenever I thought I made it, I was pulled back in and underwater. My mother totally underestimated the situation and watched. Don’t know how long it actually took me but it felt like ages until I managed to crawl out.

    • sandhu@thelemmy.clubOP
      4·
      15 hours ago

      That sounds terrifying. This actually reminds me a lot of ‘Deep Water’ by William Douglas, we read it in 12th grade, he went through something really similar as a kid …

    • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world
      2·
      15 hours ago

      Dang, sounds like a really close call. That’ll definitely buy you a phobia.

      People can drown / get pulled far into deeper water p easily in some beaches, even in relatively shallow water (chest high). Just a few months ago a guy that owns a well known restaurant here tried to save someone from drowning in a situation similar to yours. He and 2 other people that also tried to help drowned trying to rescue the person, who also didn’t make it. Was all over the news. Some beaches’ll fuck you up.

      Thanks for sharing and glad you’re OK.