Assignment 10 Lauryn McNair

 My many trivial fears include outstanding  student loan debt, not being a multi-millionaire, or not being satisfied in life. My biggest actual fear, is someone I know being sexually assaulted or being murdered. Sexual assaults rids you of all feelings of privacy, or security, or having anything belong to you. Your body is not your own. Your mind is not your own. Your soul even is barely yours. Or that's my wide speculation of sexual assault. I have never been personally assaulted, but that seems like one of, if not the worse things that can be done to a human. I know the naked, impure feeling that comes from being catcalled or reduced down to an object, and I can't imagine having someone physically treat someone I know that way. It scares me the most of having it happen to someone else, because, I really don't know why. Someone being murdered terrifies me, because I know they died painfully. No one knows what the afterlife holds, or if there's an afterlife at all. And for your last moments on this earth is literally having the life squeezed out of you by another human, almost assuredly not peacefully (such as morphine), is terrifying. And the idea of seeing a body of loved abused and battered and lifeless is pretty terrifying as well.