In the Search for Fear: Part 2

I have been trying to pay close attention to the experience I have with the feeling of fear. Instead of getting the feeling and passing it along with everything else that I must put behind me in order to move on, I have been trying to consciously put it to mind. In one case, during the reading for this class last night I noted my fear of the future. I have always known that my own future especially my own near future and what it beholds in terms of success in school and in the "real world" per say, give me some angst, and thus, I must have some fear inside of me. It is a combination of fears arising from the competition that is out there, fear of failure, fear of not doing something that will make me happy or in that case people in my personal life happy, fear of never finding the perfect love, and so on and so on. Day to day those fears influence many aspects of my life and I am highly aware of these influences. I am not alone in that fear, I see it all around me and being in that kind of environment seems to do much to cultivate even stronger anxieties, but the reading last night made me aware of a whole other fear I have of the future. I have fear for what technology will advance to in my life time and in the life time of my children. It is a fear of uncertainty. It arises from a number of questions that I ask: what new jobs will arise in the next 50+ years? if technology continues to advance faster and faster, will I even be able to keep up with it? what are the health implications that technology is placing on us? (I already know that most of my friends and relatives and maybe even myself will have cancer unless there is a miracle in the health industry and as well we will all have carpel tunnel (therefore, I suggest that anyone who is going into the medical field take a focus on hands)) What will become of our children's generation (as the access to the information we have at our finger tips is just as easily at their finger tips thus the younger and younger they start to be tempted-- into cell phones, into sex, into drugs and alcohol, into mindless conversation.. and the list goes on). In simplest form I fear the future for it is a combination of 7 billion imaginations and counting. That is scary.