I was doing a murder mystery on Sunday and I was sitting next to a blow hard<\/strike> asshole<\/strike> know-it-all<\/strike> big talker who didn’t shut up through the whole dinner. It was a little hard to stay in character.<\/p>\n
At one point he said “I don’t believe this crap that people fear public speaking more than death.” I responded that I am not afraid of death. I think when you are dead you don’t really know any better. On the other hand, I am afraid of being killed\/dying. You know strangulation, stabbing, shot, drowning, bleeding out…that kind of stuff scares me a little. So I said as much to this guy. And he says half looking at me, half at his (male) dinner partner and says “So you are saying if I held a gun to your head and said talk to 200 people or I shoot you. You would rather be shot?” I kind of blew him off, since, um, I was acting in a improv murder mystery in front of 75 people. I knew if I engaged him he would just keep going.<\/p>\n
But since then I have had more time to think. I think he is missing the whole point of what fear is. Sure, no one would rather be shot than speak in front of people, but that’s not the point. I don’t see it as comparing one fear to another. If you asked me what my biggest fear is I would say heights<\/b>. I would not say death, because I am not really afraid of death. I don’t want to die, and probably given a choice I would choose standing on the edge of the pyramid at Chichen Itza over death, but you didn’t ask me that. You asked me what my biggest fear is.<\/p>\n
So what do you think? Is he right? Are we wrong to say we fear something more than death? What do you fear most of all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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