Day 26- Facing Fears

Hey guys!

    So, ever since I was little, I was afraid of heights. I remember going into Chicago with my family, and not even being able to LOOK at those tall buildings, and I certainly wouldn't go IN one! Since hitting high school, I have been working on facing that ONE fear. I started with just looking at the buildings, then going in them, and then a big test came. For my 18th birthday, my parents told me that I could do whatever I wanted, and I knew from the many times driving home from the Lyric Opera House(where I was performing), I wanted to go on the sky deck. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is essentially a glass box that is attached 103 floors off the ground on the Sears(Willis) Tower, and they allow people to go in it, and look how high up it is. It is an amazing experience, I would recommend it to anyone visiting Chicago, or anyone living in the 'burbs that have never done it. Anyways, so I decided that I was going to do this, I'd never done it before, and NOW was my chance. As we got onto the first of four elevators, I was reminded that I was NOT the only one afraid of doing this, Marina, who was standing right next to me, was claustrophobic and terrified of elevators, so we held hands, took a deep breath, and faced our fear.

   Fast-forwarding to today, I faced my fear of heights once AGAIN. My mom took us to this really REALLY cool zip lining course in Catawaba Meadows, called the Beanstalk Adventures, I would recommend it to everyone and anyone who likes a thrill(even if you don't, you should do it!). It is essentially a series of 6 rope bridges that lead you from one platform to the next, 5 zip lines, a climbing wall(extra fee), AND for the grand finale, a zip line that starts you at 525 feet up in the air!

    I was so proud of myself and my accomplishment today, not to say that I wasn't nervous or freaking out, but I did it anyway! I did it because(this is gonna sound SUPER cheesy), you only live once! If you hide from what you're afraid of your whole life, then what you're afraid of has consumed your life! You need to look those fears in the eyes, and say, "Hey, you don't control me! I am the human here, and I will make my OWN decision!". You don't want to live your life a coward, do you? One of my all time FAVORITE TV series has a line that says, "Leap, and a net will appear!"(Monk) this is(quite literally) what I did today, and I am alive and standing, so my fear did NOT get the best of me today.

<3 Always,
Rose