I'm going to talk to you about my fear of heights.
I've always been afraid of heights. It's actually kind of ridiculous. I have a hard time approaching people who are casually chatting by a balcony. They don't seem to care that gravity could take control any second, how could they not feel the imminent threat of death looming over their shoulders?
This affliction has really inconvenienced me and strangers I meet every other day. For example, I often disrupt traffic on bridges because I can't walk anywhere but in the dead center of the walking space. I get vertigo if I'm too close t the border. If I feel the weightless space next to whatever structure I'm walking on I feel a tilt in that direction, one that could pull me down at any moment's notice. It's quite terrifying.
Allow me to clarify that it's not the fall that's scary, it's the transition from ground to groundlessness. The idea that there's 'something' here and 'nothing' there. It's not the fall but the lack of control during the fall.
I'm going to talk to you about my fear of heights.
I've always been afraid of heights. It's actually kind of ridiculous. I have a hard time approaching people who are casually chatting by a balcony. They don't seem to care that gravity could take control any second, how could they not feel the imminent threat of death looming over their shoulders?
This affliction has really inconvenienced me and strangers I meet every other day. For example, I often disrupt traffic on bridges because I can't walk anywhere but in the dead center of the walking space. I get vertigo if I'm too close t the border. If I feel the weightless space next to whatever structure I'm walking on I feel a tilt in that direction, one that could pull me down at any moment's notice. It's quite terrifying.
Allow me to clarify that it's not the fall that's scary, it's the transition from ground to groundlessness. The idea that there's 'something' here and 'nothing' there. It's not the fall but the lack of control during the fall.
Comment