I saw M’s post last night – and thought it would be fitting for me to share my latest ‘non-diva’ moment as well. Certainly NOT death-defying and not even nearly as scary as M’s post below (she told me the stories about that river… she was truly scared to death, as I know I would’ve been too!) 🙂 While M was facing the river, I was facing my fear of heights. While on a mini-vacation with my family, we were on this cool ropes course – and my little brother made me do the ‘leap of faith’ where you climb to the top of a crickety, unsturdy, wobbly pole, and then get to the top, try to balance, stand up, and then leap to attempt to catch the trapeeze thing. Seems easy enough – and doesn’t seem scary (c’mon, you’re being held by a rope if you fall!) But for some reason, that moment was just a tad bit scary for me. Getting the nerve to stand up… not thinking about how far the drop below is… trying to focus on breathing instead of throwing up… then looking ahead and telling myself that I can do it… And… I’m happy to say that I did it. Didn’t catch the trapeeze, but I tried. I jumped!
Next up on the facing-fear-agenda: tackling my greatest fear… any suggestions on how I should overcome this one?
Diva faces a fear
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Kimberlee, this is not an easy thing to do at all! I took a ropes course with the Leap of Faith and the one person who was willing to do it (not me!) climbed up there pretty quickly, made his way to standing on the top and proceeded to stand up there for an hour and a half!!! We were all at the bottom cheering him on, trying to get him to jump, and when he finally did an hour and a half later we were all bawling for him–and so was he! Very powerful stuff!!! Congrats for taking the leap!
Hey Girlie! CONGRATS!!! I was just wondering what this fantastic “face your fears” location pictured above is called, and where it’s located? You’ve inspired me to give it a whirl 😉
That looks ridiculously scary.