What are we afraid of?

Are you afraid of you? 

Autophobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of being alone.  Autophobics often worry about being ignored and unloved.  These days, we're probably all a little autophobic.  How often do we define ourselves in terms of others?  we're popular, we're respected, we're well liked, we're leaders, we're team players.  We become dependent on others for a definition of ourselves.

Many of us have never spent any significant period of time alone.  We go from our families to college to roommates and into relationships.  We've become good at dealing with others but often at the expense of learning how to deal with ourselves.  And in today's interconnected, technology-driven landscape (e-mail, text messaging, and cell phones), we can easily avoid that sort of internal dialogue and introspection that forces self-reflection and realization.

Like getting a pet, dating becomes another form of insulating ourselves from being alone.  When we date in the meantime, it's often because we're afraid of dealing with ourselves; we have lost the ability to judge ourselves without the intermediation of others' judgments of us.

So true, I didnt write this article but I would want to share this to people I know that are afraid of themselves!