My Biggest Fear

Though this photo is horrifying, clowns are not my biggest fear. (Photo/Pexels)

My greatest fear is being predictable. Not dying, not being alone, not being convicted of a crime I didn’t commit and spending the rest of my life behind bars. Not even heights. But being predictable.

What do I mean by that? Well, I consider myself a huge failure whenever somebody knows what I’m about to do or say. Sometimes, I act with the sole purpose of proving people wrong. I believe there’s a valuable lesson in having your expectations shattered — I’m just not sure I should be the one teaching it.

But I do anyway (or at least try to), often making it my business to show people there’s more than one way to look at something — that shortcuts are great, but you shouldn’t think you have a person all figured out, no matter how long you’ve known him or her.

What’s your greatest fear? I’d love to read about it in a response.

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