The Scariest Thing You Can Imagine?

I will try and guess the top three:

Death, Sickness & Apocalypse.

Death is most likely the number one, yourself or others, as permanent leaving is something people find unacceptable. Sickness, on the other hand, could allow you to live, but not entirely. And then the apocalypse. A meteor that destroys the Earth and us with it: an ultimate end to the beautiful story of the Homo Sapiens, flourished from the feet of the dinosaurs, bit by bit crawling into the sun and taking what was needed to develop and spread even further.

I understand why people would choose these things, I also find all of them scary, but I find them all-natural and logical. We live, and then we die. Our physical bodies are complicated, easily affected and they form a genetic code we can't change, so sickness is inevitable for most of us. Even the apocalypse is natural because there are no planets close by that could offer the same conditions to thrive.

So, what I think is the scariest, horrible thing there is on earth?

Its actually, something humans rarely think about or have a conversation about. Although we all see it every day, regardless of where we go on Earth. (the riddle came accidentally)

Got it already?

Space, of course.

It's easy to talk about death, sickness, or even the apocalypse (when and how it could happen). But when it comes to space, our point of view comes very slim, almost nonexistent. We don't talk about it, because we cant; we don't understand it. Death, sickness, and the apocalypse we can understand, we understand the rules and the possibilities.

But what do we know about space? Scientists may be something, but even then, the information is left as theories, because no one can go inside a black hole to see what's inside of it or travel the space to see it if ends somewhere, or if it's endless. And how on earth can something be endless? And if the space is not endless, what's behind it? Nothing? WHAT IS NOTHING?

So, I can accept death, sickness, and even the apocalypse (what a difficult word to write btw, maybe because it's a rarely used word) without paralyzing fear. But sometimes when I look up into the sky, I remember. "That's right, it just continues and continues, somewhere, unknown. And we worry that we will be left without toilet paper."

Elon Musk wants to save the human race and for that, he is planning a colony on Mars. I don't think it will succeed in the end and I think that every species has its lifecycle and we can't escape ours as hard as we try to. But as a project, is important and interesting, although I don't get

WHO ON EARTH WOULD WANT TO GO TO SPACE, WILLINGLY?

Think of the idea that you would be left floating there forever, looking at Earth, being afraid of meteorites and black holes (yes, they are far away, but so are sharks when you swim, but only the knowledge of them being there ruins the experience)

Not to talk about the fact that you are not floating in somewhere, as the space is limited or limitless, you don't know where you are. Here on Earth, I know where I am and how it works, and it distracts me. I don't understand how astronauts return to Earth and continue living normally, how can they? How can you unrealize things? You must feel so small up there.

This reminded me of Prince Philip who was excited to meet Neil Armstrong but got disappointed when they didn't offer him fundamental information about life. But there is none, whether we can leave this current planet a bit or not, we cant go that far where we could see 'real realities'.

We are stuck here, even Mars is not that far away, and moving there would not help with the sun going down someday. We are stuck here in our solar system.

And I know, it's hard to admit for a species that understands its existence; we go crazy because we want the space as well. But we can't have it.

So I recommend that everyone would change death, sickness, and apocalypse to space. Because it's right there, up there, every day, and for every human being on Earth. Reminding you that ultimately we are all screwed and will vanish from the face of the Earth someday, indefinitely.

If that's not scary, I don't know what is.