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70 Men Ages 5 to 75: What's Your Greatest Fear?

We asked men of all ages: what's your greatest fear? How many fear losing a job more than anything? Who has the debilitating fear of clowns? Find out which guys are more afraid of spiders than the end of the world.

Released on 08/03/2020

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Noise, too much noise.

Noise.

Heights.

That the Earth might blow up

sooner than people think it will because of climate change.

Clowns.

Heights.

It's psychos that

just come in your house at night

and try to, you know...

Yeah, that scares me so much.

People scaring me.

I'll say my greatest fear is probably

spiders again,

because I just hate spiders,

like with so many eyes and legs,

it's like urgh.

Death of a family member.

Clowns would be my greatest fear.

Messing up.

Dying alone.

Not being successful.

Snakes.

Big bodies of water.

Just being alone.

Dying without showing the world

all the qualities that I have to present.

Losing a loved one.

Spending a long time in my life dissatisfied

and not doing anything about it.

Not validating what my virtues are

and what I do or what my values are

and validating other people's values.

Not being able to make a living out of what I love to do.

Not becoming successful

while I'm in America.

Losing the people you love.

I was gonna say cockroaches but that's not it!

Maybe not reaching my full potential.

Being a bad person.

Getting to the end of life and realizing

all the potential that I had and didn't do anything with it.

Spiders I'd say.

Not making an impact on the world before I die.

Failure.

Disappointing my mom.

Not living up to what I wanna be.

My greatest fear is the unknown.

Having my ideas never come to fruition.

Dying.

Probably like dying alone.

To feel unhappy.

The dead.

Not having any friends.

My son has autism and

him not being understood and being a black man

or being misunderstood with autism,

very very scary.

Losing my son.

That hard work and unity won't overcome

the problems in the world right now.

To never succeed in life.

Accidents.

Getting old in a society

that's not always kind to old people.

My children not being happy.

Living a life that is not meaningful.

Being alone.

Illness.

At the moment, I don't have one.

Something happening to my kids or my mom.

Just not being able to provide for my family.

If I lose my job.

Dying alone.

Being buried alive.

Growing old.

Am I

good enough, am I talented enough?

Can I accomplish those things I want to accomplish?

My family members, children, wife

come up missing.

That's my greatest fear at this point.

To not get it all done.

Not being able to do all the things

that I still wanna do in my life.

Being alone.

There's nothing that scares me.

Growing old and

hoping that my children mature

to the point that they need to.

Not being able to help someone.

Lose my mobility.

Death is my greatest fear.

Losing one of my kids.

I enjoy my relationship with my significant other

and my greatest fear

would be to lose her.

Heights.

That I would lose somebody in my family.

Not being able to play piano.

That I'm not good enough.

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