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Don't look down

Tay_B_HD
4 min readOct 6, 2021

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Are your fears justified?

Heights, some people have the power to overcome them; others don't. The underlying mindset handling the perceived fear of heights can say a lot about how you choose to operate in challenging circumstances. The probability factor of you perishing to any fear, heights or otherwise, is relatively low, but through survival instincts forged within evolution, everything can seem like life or death.

Fear is how human beings have always survived for millions of years, and substantial challenges to our mortality over those generations have shaped parts of our brain we don't even realize are inside of us and yet come back they come back to haunt us even though now we live in a relatively safe and controlled environment.

“The only fear we have is fear itself” — Winston Churchill

Maneuvering through those emotions and maintaining your willpower can be clouded by the notion that life's pitfalls, no matter how big or small, will be your demise. But, since you are reading this, guess what? You made it through those pitfalls. Something you once perceived to be too difficult to overcome has come and gone in time.

Realizing that you will overcome adversity while living it never sounds feasible, even if it is coming from inside but double that skepticism from outside opinions. There is no doubt others mean…

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Tay_B_HD

The product of the last quarter of the last year 80’s, the hopeful optimism of the 90’s, the fear and hope of the 2000’s and the uncertain 2020’s upon us.