Fear In The Alchemist

At points in our lives fear is a fog. An aphotic cloud that looms over you causing you to stop in your tracks and put life on pause. Why do we stop though? When faced against a fear seemingly unsurmountable why do we just stop, petrified that a single step may send us over a ledge from which we may never climb up? This dismal outlook on even the most miniscule of fears is a way of life that dictates your every motion, every chance you may be too afraid to take is governed by this mind-set. Up until two-thousand and eight that is the way I lived my life, too afraid of the unknown that the risk wasn’t worth the thrill of truly living. All it took was a slight nudge, a trip and a 165 foot fall for me to realize that I was simply living life wrong! …show more content…
That’s the world’s greatest lie.” This quote is over stating the fact that we shouldn’t hop into the passenger seat of our own life and we should take charge. I learned this lesson by travelling over three-thousand miles to the beautiful, exotic country of Costa Rica. There is the spot I overcame my fears, I found a new life in near death. I went to Costa Rica seeking adventure, because who doesn’t love the sense adventure (a little bit of insight to my idea of adventure back then was that anything over 25 feet is too dang high and if you’re going faster than 35 miles per hour then you need to SLOWWWW down!). The adventure I was expecting was no where near the adventure I got and it all started in the international terminal of Hartsfield Jackson Airport like any other non-domestic