My fear is of heights and then off water..
Some time we think about your fears and we are like Oh My God ( Remember Janice from Friends.. ) Whyyyyy me !!!!!
Thats exactly how I felt when I picked up my friend Danilo call me today at 8am.
Why the fear? and that feeling.. ?
Well I don't know how to swim and all my friends from univ ( to be precise my dept or the lab as we call it ) decided to take up White Water Rafting at River Tummel and thats considered like Grade 4/5 rafting depending on the water level let out from the dam which is the highest level allowed for commercial purpose.
And I convinently ( or rather purposefully ) forgot about it.
But to no luck.
Considering I got ppl to remind me about it.
So here I am sitting and panicking oh my god , oh my god.. !!
And it was sooooo early in the morning.. but to no avail.
My friend Ruth came to pick me up on the way and I had Danilo and Flavia ( his wife ) in the same car going dont worry.. you wont die of drowing.. For which my snorting come back was if I did would come back to haunt you and my death would be on your conscious.
Anyways we reached this place which is between Perth and Inverness , a good hours drive from Dundee.
Got our gear , the boat and our Instructor ( very important ).
And we started our journey.. with the water..
And with all the up's and down.. getting stuck on the rocks..
I realised it wasn't actually too bad..
The place was sooo beautiful.. and so calm and peaceful.. with the occasional rush of water.. but otherwise it was justt great.. and a nice way of unwinding and relaxing one-self.
And with that came another realisation , why was I so afraid to be in the water and go for rafting, considering we all had protective gear and the safety was given immense importance..
Guess it was just a thought that cropped into my head wanting me to stop from trying different things..
Just that small word of cautious that sometimes things might get dangerous. But then its cool..
Because no life is without a challenge.
And some time or the other you do have to overcome once's fear.
There's a very thin line between Fear and adventure....An Adventure not only helps in overcoming fear but brings in a lot of Excitement with it.....Your last para just sums up the whole thing ....
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you on that..
ReplyDeletethere is only this thin line between our fears and an adventure..
when one let goes of his/her fear.. that automatically becomes an adventure..