Daily Prompt – January 31, 2026

This is a hard prompt for me to answer. Not because I’m not afraid to do things, I certainly have a list somewhere deep in my brain. It’s more that my brain is locking them away because just thinking about them sets off the fear and my brain wants to protect me.

I would say the things I’m most scared to do are probably things that involve falling in some way. Fear of falling is probably my biggest fear. It kept me from riding rollercoasters for most of my life. It’s only in the last 3-4 years that I started to ride those, other than smaller kiddie ones like Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Walt Disney World. It took having a partner who enjoyed them and going to an amusement park with them and their kids to make me even want to try them and even then I was prepared to say, nope not for me. I actually ended up really enjoying it. There’s still some like ones where you stand that I haven’t done yet, and some of them I definitely need company the first time. After that I feel safe enough to do them on my own. There are a few I’ve done on my own the first time but I had to watch them multiple times to prepare myself.

I suppose the same would be true for these other things but I don’t know if I have anyone that would do them with me or if I even really want to do them. I don’t think every thing we are scared to do needs to be conquered, many of those fears exist for a reason.