Fears are something that everyone no matter how strong they are, happen to be plagued with. Genetically, I hail from a long line of individuals who by all regards have been completely crippled by fear. This is a story of why I refuse to fall to this tradition of self-incapacitation.

Historically my family has fears that are quite common but just a quick list they are mainly revolved around heights, speed, traveling, rodents, birds, snakes, flying, insects, storms, germs, driving on the highway, and going out of the house.

For a complete list of phobias you can go to a site I used; it can be quite fun.

The main issue is that when a family member of mine gets these fears, they become so crippling that they often get in their way to conduct normal day to day life. The main reason that my family members get so crippled by fear is that they fail to ever conquer their fears and just allow them to get worst and worst by mentally "psyching" themselves out. Many of them go on for years just sitting talking with other family members about the fears and they continually make it worst.

I refuse to allow myself to be another causality of this downward spiral of fears I know that what I must do is that I need to face my fears head first. While I have known that I must face my fears for most of my life it is the last few years that I have had to get over my fears. One of the main fears that I have is of heights, you might feel that this would be strange for a pilot but for the most part it is not uncommon with my fellow aviator peers, I suppose flying in an aircraft and having physics on my side and just being just outside having physics working to pull me down to the ground creates a different mental feeling.

To conquer this fear I chose to go bungee jumping a literal way to face my fear of heights and then inevitable falling face first. The anticipation leading up to the fall was the worst, but once gravity took the option out of my hands I felt relieved.

I was relieved in knowing the fact that I was able to face my fear and once I knew that I was safe I was over my fear of heights and that I have the ability to face anything that comes at me. I was relieved in knowing that I have the power to not be debilitated in fear much like my family.