I have an intense fear of heights.
Not because I fear the fall
I fear the desire to jump
Because I believe I can fly.
There is a tremendous difference between metaphorical and literal
Know the difference
When you’re standing on a cliff.
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Good piece of advice! I get those confused sometimes! 😉
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😉 make sure you know if you have the fear!!!
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This is such a beautiful way of putting it✨
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Thank you !
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Oh gosh Colleen. I know that feeling. But this brough a memory back. After chemo, when I got back home, I was always “high” because they gave me a strong dose of steroid as well, and that made me think I could do ANYTHING! I thought I could stand on my bedroom window ledge and just jump off and fly!!!
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Oh Lorraine! What a scary feeling, though also, sounds kind of exhilarating. In a very odd way. I am seriously terrified of heights. And I was just playing with that thought when I wrote this. But geez….
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I have a friend in America – Wisconsin- and we joked that she had to watch out for me flying over her house. Ivwas always absolutely high, and exhilarated when I came home from chemo in the evening, and I felt I could have done ANYTHING! It was just the steroids doing it though. The next day I was as low as low. Strange times.
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It sounds very strange Lorraine. I’m kind of glad you had those high moments, though it sounds like the grounding was pretty rough.
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Solid advice!
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😉 I am pretty sure I don’t have to worry about jumping. I would be too scared to get to that point.
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Smiling. Yeah, we need to know the difference.
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It helps to know 😉
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Excellent advice. Happy weekend. ❤️
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THank you Paulette. And to you as well! 🙂
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I know you can make the makeable, MBC.
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But for that fear part !
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Part of you flies around the world every day. Miracles do happen!
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Well, with the help of the intrawebs I do fly with some of the best 😉
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I was about to say, yet ANOTHER thing we have in common–fear of heights. But not because I think I can fly.
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Well, the ‘I think I can fly” part is NOT literal, perhaps literary !
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Well, phew; otherwise, let’s keep you away from cliffs and other tall structures! 😉
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Sadly though…..I want to see the views!!!!
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Through super high netting then. 🙂
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Well, we have some traveling coming up,. I hope to climb some new heights…. !! NO NETTING.
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You go, girl! Just stay in one piece. Are you sharing where you’re going? My way? (Oh, please. Oh, please. Oh, please.)
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Oh some day !!!! I will be traveling to a place I am very fond of. 😉 And would live in if I could.
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Ireland again?
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🙂 the one and only 🙂
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Awh, lovely. Where we went on our honeymoon. That’s how special it is. That and Rome, actually. Went to the Vatican. Prayed for you. 😉
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THAT got me PIF. 🙂 thank you for being so good to me!
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You make it so easy!
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😉 I am easy….er…..
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Ha!!!
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How true & incredibly profound..such sound advice, Colleen!
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Thank you !!! 🙂
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there is.
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Oh my goodness, Colleen, that is EXACTLY why I fear heights! Deep deep within there is this tottering, jelly-like inclination to just jump. It looks so lovely. And then the fear stems from this inability to control that strange strange desire!
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I can imagine that if I ever actually got to the top of the heights….I would fear the power of that. My fear of heights is so intense. I have, in my lifetime, on a rare occasion been able to get to the top of…. a couple of mountains, some towers, etc…. It is SUCH an adrenaline rush of fear. But, I’ve mostly NOT been able to get to the top of something I want to climb….and I am saddened because I so badly want to get there….
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I fear the desire to jump
Because I believe I can fly.
Yesss!!!!
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I’m so glad so many got this, I was afraid I was too ‘me’ in this. 🙂
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You put words to the feeling I have never given words to or given a thought that it existed. You really dare to go places as such with words and you do it with such finesse of no intensity …so keep being all of you 🙂
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❤ . Thank you Infinite!
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