"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am studying psychology as my major so naturally I am interested in what goes through people's mind. Fear is the scariest thing we as humans have to face. Whether it be our own fears coming to life or watching someone we love battle with their fears, fear is still in our lives. We might have never had to face our fears yet, but they are still holding us back from becoming more. This article is inspired by Jennifer VerMeulen's article about 64 people revealing their last text they sent their ex. 70 people with different stories, different experiences, different ages and a different beautiful mind shared their deepest fears. Ordered from youngest to oldest, take a few moments to truly take in all this vulnerability that people shared for us to read.

1. "Failure." -15 years old

2. "Heights and Spiders." -15 years old

3. "Being alone." -15 years old

4. "Being trapped in small spaces with no clear and visible exit." -15 years old

5. "Failure." -16 years old

6. "Failure." -17 years old

7. "Falling overboard a cruise ship and drowning to death." -17 years old

8. "Heights." -17 years old

9. "Centipedes." -17 years old

10. "The unfathomably huge expanse of ocean that we will never understand." -17 years old

11. "Dying too early." -17 years old

12. "Wasting my life." -18 years old

13. "My biggest fear is that one day my boyfriend/ future husband etc. will wake up one day and not love me anymore" -18 years old

14. "That when I die, no one will attend my funeral." -18 years old

15. "Time moving by too quickly and before I blink I'm old." -18 years old

16. "Not being good enough. I've lived trying to be the best that I can be and it's not enough. I'll never forget the day I told someone I loved them and they replied 'sometimes that's not enough.'" -18 years old

17. "Dying sooner than I'm ready for and dying alone." -18 years old

18. "Failure." -18 years old

19. "My deepest fear is not reaching my true potential. I am terrified that some day I will just give up on life and settle. I want to experience the world and enjoy life but a part of me always feels like I am not good enough and will never accomplish my goals." -18 years old

20. "To live without love, to live forever in despair." -18 years old

21. "Dying. the mere thought of leaving the earth after living a whole life upsets me. we work so hard for a fun filled, successful and loving life, and it can all be torn away in a split second death. that, it what my biggest and deepest fear is." -18 years old

22. "Abandonment." -18 years old

23. "The dark." -18 years old

24. "Not being good enough or not being able to live up to the expectations held for me." -19 years old

25. "Not finding someone to spend the rest of my life with." -19 years old

26. "Getting a divorce when I'm older." -19 years old

27. "My biggest fear is never finding my one true love. It sounds ridiculous, but I'm terrified that I'll always just be alone. Don't get me wrong, I'm totally cool with being single but not for my whole life. A lot of my family members never married and that breaks my heart. I want a family and kids in the worst way and I'm terrified that I will never find it. I had a very serious relationship 2 years ago, and I don't know if I'll ever meet someone that can tear down the walls that my previous relationship caused me to put up. I know I need to let go, and let God but that is so much easier to say that to actually do." -19 years old

28. "Being rejected/alone." -19 years old

29. "Spiders." -19 years old

30. "The the person I love will find someone else." -19 years old

31. "Being alone. For example, not having anyone to laugh with, share my life with or talk to." -19 years old

32. "Love." -19 years old

33. "Spiders." -19 years old

34. "Fear of failure." -19 years old

35. "My biggest fear is betrayal." -19 years old

36. "Losing him after he's become the best thing in my life." -19 years old

37. "My unexpected death. I am very afraid of getting murdered." -19 years old

38. "That my gender will keep being assumed." -19 years old

39. "Public speaking." -19 years old

40. "Loneliness." -20 years old

41. "Not succeeding in life." -20 years old

42. "Not finding/falling in love. Finding my soulmate." -20 years old

43. "Not being perfect." -20 years old

44. "Rejection by others." -20 years old

45. "My deepest fear is abandonment." -20 years old

46. "One day I will actually kill myself instead of just constantly thinking about it." -20 years old

47. "To leave college still not knowing what to do with the rest of my life." -20 years old

48. "Being alone." -21 years old

49. "Falling from heights and rejection." -21 years old

50. "Being confused with the '21' kid." -21 years old

51. "That I won't accomplish something due to the fear of what I must do to accomplish that goal." -22 years old

52. "I fear that there is always something on the back of my neck. I will scratch that sport for moments at a time thinking that there is something there and there never is. I fear one day I will find a giant scab or something back there pick it off and then it resulting in something deadly." -22 years old

53. "It's a cross between being stranded in outer space or stranded in the middle of the ocean." -22 years old

54. "Commitment." -22 years old

55. "The universe is huge and we'll probably die without even the slightest understanding of it. We're all unimportant in the grand scheme of things – in the vastness of it all." -22 years old

56. "Heights." -22 years old

57. "Anxiety." -23 years old

58. "Losing my job." -23 years old

59. "I fear that I will never be 100% happy in my life. People think I have everything - the perfect family, the perfect house, truly the perfect life. But it couldn't be further from the truth on the inside." -26 years old

60. "Fear of failure; not being good enough. Being replaced." -28 years old

61. "Ending up alone." -28 years old

62. "Someone I love dying." -30 years old

63. "Complacency." -30 years old

64. "Not reaching my fullest potential." -33 years old

65. "Death." -40 years old

66. "My fear is what will happen to my children if my husband and I would pass away when they are young." -41 years old

67. "I will not be able to be financially secure for the rest of my life." -48 years old

68. "Someone kidnapping my kids." -49 years old

69. "Dying before my children grow old. Missing important milestones of my children's lives, college graduation, marriage and children." -51 years old

70. "Heights and being burned alive." -64 years old