Over coming fear isn’t an effortless task. Whether it was the fear of meeting new people or the fear of deep water, overcoming my personal terrors wasn’t always so painless. When I was around eight or nine in particular, my fear of heights caused me much embarrassment and kept me from enjoying myself with my friends. However, my learning to overcome this fear would lead to conquering other fears and learning that fear is only a mental roadblock. Around the time I was entering the second grade I was beginning to become more aware of myself, and in turn, what scared me the most. The summer before the second grade, my father and I attended a father-son camping trip with my dad’s battalion. Towards the end of the first pitch-black night of this
