My Worst Fear

My Worst Fear

Heights.  From looking off the edge of a canyon to creeping out over the edge of the space needle.  Ever since I was young, I’ve always hated heights.  I could never rock climb, or at least get to the top, and whenever we would go over bridges, I would have had to close my eyes.  The only way to diminish my nerves is to realize I am safe and will not fall over the edge.  Now, sometimes that doesn’t work, where in that case, I have a panic attack.  Truly, most of the time I am pretty nervous to look over the edge, but I still look over and realize that I am safe and hopefully will not fall over.  One time, actually over the summer, my family was taking a trip to Seattle to visit my great aunt and uncle.  We stayed in down town Seattle for 2 days and one of those days, we ventured to the site of the space needle.  So when we arrived, it honestly didn’t look that tall.  Right when you are about to head up, you see all these facts of people that had to do with the Space Needle.  After the walk up a ramp, you come to an elevator.  You enter it and it shoots you up.  The whole elevator is glass, so you can see all around you.  Going up for me was pretty freaky realizing how high you actually were.  After the elevator stops, you walk out into a circular room where you can walk out onto a ledge and look over.  Well can I say,  It was so high up.  I was terrified.  So after being up there for a good 20 minutes looking over the edge, I was done.  So there you have it, I had looked over the edge of the space needle.  I’ve always wondered what makes me so terrified of heights, and till this day I still don’t know.  Maybe it’s the fear of loosing my balance and falling off or tripping and falling.  Who knows, I just hope its not the way I die.