what do you worry about?
repeated answers are bold, larger if more often, and a few favorites are in italics
A couple of things, if my parents get hit by a car, losing my sister or my family in general
A lot of things, my kids, my family, I will say world problems as well
A lot, I shouldn't worry but I do
A lot, my future, things working out the way I want
A lot, the biggest thing is finances
About 11th standard students
About my handwriting
About my maths marks
About people being able to connect with each other. Because we don't move forward without connection
Aging is probably something I worry about
All the time about [my daughter], her safety, her health
Anything and everything
Anything that I’m scared of
Being a burden to somebody (either through financial situation or ill health)
Being a nerd in high school
Being able to provide for my kids, it keeps me up at night. And world peace.
Being alone
Being financially stable in the future to where I don't have to worry about it
Being found out
Being independent (anything from financial to relationships)
Being selfish, being there for friends and family in a way that doesn't suck me dry but benefits all of us
Being successful
Bergens (they eat trolls)
Breaking something [in the house or bones]
By son being safe
CAA, NPR and NRC of India [laws passed in India]
Camaraderie of mankind- just to be able to get along. Racism, sexism, this election- can we get along together
Career
Career and expectations
Children's education
COVID
Crying babies
Death
Death, handling the impact of death on others and my impending demise at some point
Definitely the future, where I’m going to end up. I guess right now my future job, my profession and my education
Depends on when you're asking
Disappointing my kids again
Disappointing people
Donald Trump
Dying
Dying, as you get older you realize it's getting closer
Dying alone, I always joked about being that person who's dead for 3 days before anyone notices. I worry about my kids. I want to make sure they're adulting properly. Their happiness. I worry about losing my mind
Election results
Everything
Everything at this stage
Everything mainly well being of children and traveling (i hate flying)
Everything, literally everything
Everything, literally everything. I worry more now than I did last year
Failing
Failure
Falling down
Family
My family
My family, my nephews
My Son
My son and daughter
My son's life
My children
My children, truly
My children's welfare
Family health
Family isn't getting along
Family. Health and family
Finance, children
Finances
Financial security and the future for my children
Financials, fear of not having income
Finding the next client/project
Friends, because they're my friends
Fucking up
Future
Getting cancer, sick or something like that
Getting comfortable, not learning from my mistakes, disappointing those who love me and not reaching my full potential
Getting embarrassed in front of a big group of people
Getting hurt
Getting in trouble, fights. Getting in trouble for anything here
Getting old
Getting old and sick and losing mobility
Getting older, becoming 30 is a big transition
Getting really hurt
Getting seriously ill
Getting shots
Giving enough
Giving up, not achieving my full potential in life
Going back to the same lifestyle
Grades
Growing older and staying healthy. Being financially secure
Gun violence, especially as it pertains to children
Happiness and health for my family and friends
Having enough money for retirement
Having to move to the suburbs
Having to talk to clowns
Health
Health and mortality of my family and friends
How the next day will work, how next week will come out, what will happen in the next year
How to be my best self
How will I handle adversity when things don't go my way. Trying to plan my life and how do you deal with that
I am worried about black magic but I'm also prepared
I avoid worry and focus more on mindfulness of the future
I don't have a lot of worries, like everybody paying bills
I don't have any worries, my children should be well
I don't know
I don't know if I have any worries
I don't know, maybe I should worry about more
I don't really worry a lot, I think about getting things done and planning in the future
I don't really worry that much- I used to be someone who worried. Until there are problems I can fix
I don't worry about anything
I don't worry about anything much
I don't worry about much now. I used to. Consciously not that much but I know there's more on the subconscious level. I don't spend much time worrying about them. Because nothing good comes of it
I don't worry about the future. I don't really worry
I don't worry much, not much I can do about most problems in the world
I guess dying and leaving the family. I don't worry too much
I guess dying in pain
I guess health
I have a granddaughter that has CRPS, a syndrome where she has a lot of pain. I worry about her a lot
I have an adopted daughter and I worry about her because she's autistic and not doing great
I have many things now: Reestablishing my life, job security, my daughters and the world they're being left. And them in general as a father. My immediate future
I have the usual ones, war, pestilence but I also worry about if I'll be there for my children and worry about as a parent, their happiness
I just worry about a large variety of things
I plan too much for the future, I worry about how to get from spot A to spot G. Acknowledging there are a lot of spots in between but I don't know what they are yet which worries me
I try not to worry about too much
I worry a lot but I’m not sure what it is specifically. I lament the past but I don’t worry too much.
I worry about cold
I worry about how the Parkinson's will affect [my husband] and thus the two of us, as the years go on
I worry about losing someone whom I love, particularly at this time
I worry about my future with God, the day of judgement
I worry about my kids being OK
I worry about surgeries and scary people
I'm a worrier, I worry about my family
I'm not a worrier. And I tell other people not to worry because it's going to pass
I'm not worried about my age, as I'm getting older I"m worried I'm worried or concerned with the condition I'm in before I die
I'm really not much of a worrier. I think it's wasted energy. When I do worry probably the same things most people worry about, money, safety, kids safety, losing your job
I'm worried about burglars coming into our house
I've been great until about 96, then my neck started bothering me, I have a considerable amount of pain I have to put up with
If I can achieve my goals/aims. I have to keep my parents well
If I die early, whenever I die
If I'll always be like this
If I'm doing exactly what I should be doing. Am I existing to my full potential
If I'm going to have good enough grades to get into college
If I'm going to reach my dreams, my future financial wise and dream wise. The path I've chosen to take is very hard
If I'm raising my son the right way. They don't give you a pamphlet on that.
If I've made the right choices, all the ways I will inevitably screw up my kids
If Mom and Dad get sick (and my grandparents too)
If my kids will be safe, their financial future, my parents health
If society is losing touch with love and respect for one another (and spiders)
If somebody insults me, when neighbors or friends mistook me
If somebody is sick in the family or somebody has got a problem in the family
Ignorance messing up decisions that people have. Either they don't know or don't want to know
Illness
Instability of human systems
Kids, they're all in their 30s (not all, but I had kids young)
Lamb [stuffed toy lamb]
Last year I saw a documentary about having to move to Mars. What happens next in some areas of life.
Life on the outside, what everyone is doing and how society is treating its children
Loneliness
Losing everything and being homeless
Losing my animals (personally). Right now my biggest worry is our President [Trump] The horrible horrible person in charge
Loss of time
Lots of things personal and society in general. Nutrition and health and how medical professionals and the mainstream- how a lot of people could feel good if they had better nutrition. I worry that we won't evolve past that
Lots of things, if there really is a heaven and how to save my soul and to help people change
Lots of things, my health and dying and my daughter who’s had some struggles
Making people sad
Making people upset
Making the "wrong" decision
Many many things
Marriage for daughter
Mediocrity, my effect/influence on others, making sure it's positive instead of negative. How people are feeling
Mess and clutter
Missing opportunities while I'm young enough to take them.
Mommy and Daddy
Money
Money and global warming
Money and my daughter's health
Money, having enough, I think everyone does don't they
Money. I worry about other things but money is the worst
Most of what I worry about is my 2 daughters and their families, especially with the violence in schools
My bills
My child's studies
My clients who are on the streets. A very good friend of my who happens to be in jail
My exams
My future
My future. That I may not be able to live the same way after I retire before I retired. That my children won't be successful
My girlfriend
My grades and what other people think. How they feel towards anything pretty much
My Grandkids and this world
My grandson's studies, otherwise nothing else. If he's OK, I'm OK
My health and my family's health
My husband not being healthy, mainly family
My kids
My kids and their health and education. The way the world is turning out and their future
My kids falling under the statistics of parents in prison, my kids future
My kids future (both my boys' futures)
My kids, everything
My kids, making sure they're taken care of well. Always little things but nothing big
My Kids. Whether they’ll be happy, whether they’ll meet someone who makes them happy
My marks [grades]
My own personal success and this year- the election
My parents
My parents taking away my big boy bed and giving me back my baby bed
My students
My studies
My unborn children's future, bringing kids into this world
Never escaping stress/never finding balance
Never seeing my [biological] Mom again
Normal stuff, choosing high school classes
Not a big worrier, don't worry about much
Not a lot really, I accept life as it is
Not accomplishing what I've been put on earth to achieve. And I don't know how'd you'd achieve that
Not achieving enough in such a short amount of time, not being able to do as much as I want to
Not achieving my goals
Not achieving my potential in the working sphere
Not being able to achieve the full potential of our current situation and our kids growing up not knowing about their cousins
Not being able to maintain good health and independence
Not being able to make it outside of here [prison]
Not being able to provide for my family
Not being good for myself and goals. And that I won't succeed because I'm not trying hard enough
Not being successful
Not being successful, about wasting time
Not doing/achieving the things I want in life. I worry about being older and looking back at failed opportunities
Not enough time to right my wrongs
Not fulfilling my dreams, not giving myself a chance at succeeding at something, getting in my own life
Not getting done everything I dream of doing
Not getting to the bus stop on time. But I usually get there really early
Not going to heaven
Not having enough money
Not having enough money, not being able to drive. I already can't because of epilepsy
Not having enough time and being late
Not knowing, I hate not knowing
Not living, just existing- not going out and actively experiencing life and just letting it happen
Not making enough money to support myself
Not progressing
Not really sure
Not succeeding, letting other people down
Nothing
Nothing, I don't worry about anything really
Nothing, I'm always happy
Obviously my kids and their futures. The direction of this country, the world
Oh that's a long list: My family, university, my mental health, my family's mental health, the President, the state of the environment, friends, change. Whether or not people like me
Only my grandson not speaking. I don't worry about anything else. What the future generation is going to do next
Only worrying about my Son
Other people in general
Our position and the state of the world
Outliving my money, I'm getting older all the time
Overwhelmingly my kids, kids have needs and they find it overwhelming at times to mitigate that. As a parent how do you keep your kids safe and expose them to life
Paying the bills, that's the biggest problem every month
People not recognizing truth (and that includes myself)
People, money and right now my dog. Also the future and the division within the country and all the possibility their is with that
People, those close to me sometimes money. Not really my own health or my family's (we're all healthy at the moment). Not that I don't worry about other people and the country and the world
People's health
Personally I don't have a lot. Overall people are losing capacity to be empathetic. Huge misunderstandings of others and their beliefs. The huge divide between people
Polar bears in real life
Politics, death, illness, people I love, I worry about a lot of things
Poverty and how it will change in the future
Poverty in India
Pretty much everything
Probably all the usual: money, being lonely, whether I'm good at what I do, the usual
Probably just life and making the wrong decisions
Probably my health and being around for my family. And the world they will grow up in. Where we are headed as a society
Really getting old
Recently a lot about money which is interesting because I don't want to. But mostly I worry about not doing the things to change what I can to make the world a better place
Recently, I'm worried about helping my daughter while she's pregnant
Relatives and others
Repeating the past
Retirement and money
Returning to prison
Right now about my son's life
Running out of time
School
Security
So many things, I worry that humanity is losing its ability to work together for a common goal
Some sort of unexpected medical disaster where I can't take of Amy [wife] or a financial disaster.
Someday I'll lose my freedom because of disease or whatever
Something happening to my children
Sometimes when I get failure but it isn't lost, I throw it away. Failure is not a thing that we [should] become sad. It's a part of life and we shouldn't worry about it.
Stupid things, everything other people worry about- money, time, sleep
Taking care of my wife and kids
That every ache and pain is cancer
That I won't make it in time
That I'm going to be really really late to school
That people over time won't see the changes I've made and will still judge me based on what I did 20 years ago
That someday my brother is going to become a warrior
That things are irreversible
The ability to take care of myself. When others have to do things for me. Having to rely on others is scarier than death for me.
The dogs pooping
The future
The future and the past and the present
The future and the uncertainty in the future
The future of [my] children
The future we're leaving for the kids
The future, everyday (career, personal), what the future will look like, so many questions
The future, the earth sustaining itself. Afraid of what conditions future generations will have to deal with
The future. You don't know what it's going to be tomorrow or the next 5 years
The haves and the have nots. God says he created inequality to make people think so the haves give to the have nots. And God knows all so why?
The kids, being a good parent/role model, setting them up for success
The only thing I worry about is serious illness
The real world
The relationship between my wife and my mother
The safety of my family
The situation in the world. The future generations, I'm not worried about myself
The state of the world for future generations
The state of the world, my kids growing up in this world
The weight of time
The welfare of my kids (they're doing fine). You never quit worrying
The world not being able to see me for who I am. Not just "oh she's a girl" or "she's black"
The world nowadays
Things happening to my family in Puerto Rico
Things that I shouldn't worry about
This [question]
Unconditional love being damaged
Undisciplined activities by others
What are we going to leave young people. I worry what their life will be like compared to mine growing up
What do I not worry about- Being an adult and doing everything myself and not having enough money to do everything I want to do
What everybody thinks all the time, and that's wrong
What I'm going to do tomorrow. Towards the future
What if I don't like my husband
What kind of country we're going to leave to our children
What others think about me
What the world will be like when my kids are grown up
When children aren't well
When I cannot hear
When I get low marks in my studies/exam
When I get too close to dangerous hot tools
When my parents leave and I want to stay with someone
Where my principles are, my philosophical development vs. my worldly ambition and death
Whether I can communicate what I intend to and can I financially sustain making art
Work
World issues, Donald Trump. Current issues. My daughter is pregnant so what's the world going to be like?
World peace seriously (or lack of it), children's careers
World War 3
You worry about the people you love. I’m a survivor and I don’t spend time worrying
Younger generation