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How not to cure your fear of heights.
12 years ago
It just dawned on me... how stupid it is to think you might conquer a fear by totally immersing yourself in it.
Hey, here's a great idea to conquer your deathly fear of heights, take a ride in a fuggin air balloon captained by a record-breaker for highest flying! You'll snap out of it like amnesia.
Or end up traumatized.
It was an experience, I tell you what. But I was standing in an enlarged basket a half mile above the ground or whatever, thinking the basket was going to give out under me or I was going to be swept off.
And it's sheer silence.
The only thing you can hear is your heartbeat.
And then BASHOOM! an explosion of fire against a thin inflated bubble. You have no direction but wherever nature decides to put you. Thankfully it wasn't the highway.
This was 4 years ago, but the mere thought of it makes my hands sweaty. My keys are damp. Lesson? One step at a time.
Hey, here's a great idea to conquer your deathly fear of heights, take a ride in a fuggin air balloon captained by a record-breaker for highest flying! You'll snap out of it like amnesia.
Or end up traumatized.
It was an experience, I tell you what. But I was standing in an enlarged basket a half mile above the ground or whatever, thinking the basket was going to give out under me or I was going to be swept off.
And it's sheer silence.
The only thing you can hear is your heartbeat.
And then BASHOOM! an explosion of fire against a thin inflated bubble. You have no direction but wherever nature decides to put you. Thankfully it wasn't the highway.
This was 4 years ago, but the mere thought of it makes my hands sweaty. My keys are damp. Lesson? One step at a time.
icewhisper
~icewhisper
I'm glad you survived! and perhaps a little wiser... ; )
