December 10, 2000    
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What is your biggest worry?

My biggest worry is money and my children. I worry if I will be able to meet the bills. I worry if I might have spent too much when I stopped at a store. I worry about my children and grandchildren, their health and safety.

Marci, 55
Diamond
, OH   USA

I worry that people don't like me.

Tracy, 24
Ocean City
, NJ  USA

My sister has had a long-term illness (not life threatening, but very painful) and I worry about her a lot. I also worry about very good friends whose daughter broke her back and damaged her spinal column. She's paralyzed from the waist down, but there is a good chance that she will recover.

Laura, 35
Lowell
, MA   USA

Well, that's a very appropriate question for me right now!!! I have one VERY BIG worry and a plethora of little worries at the moment. I am writing from a hospital bed and I have a baby in my tummy that's only 24 weeks along. He is barely old enough to survive outside of the womb, and if he did survive, there would be many possibilities for a variey of birth defects/problems. I guess the "biggest worry" is that I will go into labor this afternoon and my baby would not survive. I've already spent 7 days in the hospital, then went home for 24 hours, and now I'm back again with more problems. I'm doing everything possible to stear clear of my "biggest worry". And the little worries that go along with all of this? I  won't go there to prevent opening a very large and detailed can of worms!

Susan, 31
Chicago
, IL   USA

My biggest worry is that some of the people who I love won't go to Heaven.

Melodi, 19
Hlliard
, OH   USA

My biggest worry is that I won't be able to follow through with my dream of being a full-time artist without having that "extra" job that pays the bills.

Tina, 31
Medford
, MA   USA

Running out of time before I get a chance to have what will make me happy.

Karen, 21
Marshelltown/Ames
, IA   USA

That harm will come to my son.

Jesse, 25
Bowie
, MD   USA

My biggest worry is always a variation on the financial state of my life.

Felicia, 34
Lowell
, MA   USA

My biggest worry is a world crises.

Stephanie, 25
TX  USA

I don't have any worries right now.

Jane, 60
West Linn
, OR  USA

Money!! A constant nagging worry at the back and sometimes fromt of my mind is money. Doesn't help that my wallet with $100 cash and a two-week paycheck has disappeared. Blah.

Maggie, 20
Sandwich
, IL   USA

My biggest worry always seems to be about money. Always trying to decide which bills to pay and when. With out money worries, I believe I would live to be a very old man.

Kevin, 33
Sugar Hill
, GA USA

Health and money - in that order. I worry that my health could be better and my family history isn't the greatest. I also worry about not having enough money, when the time comes, to put my daughter through college. Other than these two concerns...the rest, to me, falls under the catagory of "the small stuff" and I try not to sweat it.

Fisch, 45
Preston
, CT    USA

My biggest fear is dying. I don't want to have people miss me when I'm gone.

Jason, 17

My biggest worry, on a global scale, is overpopulation, and the destruction of nature by the encroachment of man. On a personal scale, my biggest worry is that nobody will know I existed, or care. I worry that I will make no mark on the world, and the world won't even remember that I even existed.

Mick, 30
Chicago
, IL   USA

One word. Guys!

Dianne, 16
Oshawa, Ontario  CANADA

Losing my sense of perspective and snapping unjustly.

Jill, 59
Saylorsburg
, PA  USA

What is my biggest worry? That's hard to say, but I'll just pick one. I am worried that I'm going to grow to be a prune; a worry wart, a shriveled, mean, old woman, someone no one wants to be around. I'm worried that I'll be defeated by something, mostly, loosing my parents. I'm worried that my brain will go on autopilot, and i'll never take the wheel again. I'm worried that I'll just live life going through the motions. And that i'll never make a difference. I'm also worried that the world will go on eating dead animals, and continue to disrespect the other life forms here on this planet and never evolve into a compassionate society. Well, I'd better stop there because if I think about my worries too much, I'll start worrying, and I usually don't worry about anything because I trust God with my life and as long as he has control, everything will work out for the good

Lisa J., 22
TN
   USA

That there is no life after death...

Amy, 23
New Orleans
, LA   USA

Losing my parents...I don't know what I'd do without them!

Tracy, 24
Ocean City
, NJ   USA

I don't know, really. I have lots of worries.

Shanna, 15
Cardiff   ENGLAND

I don't have a family, no children, and I'm in poor health. At the moment, my husband does everything for me. Although I've been counseled to look after the present and let the future take care of itself, I still worry about what will happen to me if Bill dies before me or if he gets sick.

Reba, 51
Rockville
, MD   USA

Right now, it's probably high school, because 1. I don't know many people going there 2. It's huge and 3. I'm not sure if it's the right one for me

Jeremy, 13
Highlands Ranch
, CO   USA

Being lonely

Savannah

that i'm going to pass up someone really good b/c i won't realize he's the one.

Angela, 16
Aiken
, SC   USA

Not coming close to fulfilling my personal and professional potential. . .

mothmc, 36
Los Angeles
, CA  USA

Yesterday / Tomorrow