Gennady Privedentsev
Today’s prompt is frightened exhilaration. I don’t know about you but I automatically think of heights. I am terrified of heights but sometimes I push past that fear in order to partake in an activity. When I lived in the mountains Sam and I frequently went hiking. Most of the time it was just mindless wondering through wooded trails. There was no real destination, no epic view, and with the trees obfuscating the abysmal plunge off the side of the mountain it wasn’t easy to gauge how many feet away I was from sanity.
One day we decided to hike expressively for the view. As the trail narrowed and the trees thinned I had to stare at my feet. I couldn’t look around it was just the ground and my shoes. When we reached the summit I was determined to reap my reward. Several feet from the cliff I looked up and out over the vista. I sat down immediately, had I been able to dig through rock I might have buried myself right there. The view was breath-taking I felt an intense rush but my fear was just as strong as my sense of awe. I sat there shaking, eyes bugging out, laughing and crying simultaneously. I don’t think I really understood the severity of my fear until that moment. What about you ever done something both amazing and terrifying at the same time?
Write a story, poem or blog post sharing your experience (if you prefer you can write about a fictional experience)
You can also share photographs or drawings of the event
Or if you like you can share abstract photographs or drawings depicting the emotion
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Agree about heights 100% they scare and stimulate me at the same time! Will try to get something wrtten for this great prompt tomorrow!
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Awesome I look forward to it =)
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🙂
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Beautiful your new site, today I very confused!
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I am sorry it confused Leovi. I host 3 challenges the one on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday and you can always post photos in my challenges =)
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I hate heights too very odd though I dream of flying x
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I do too =)
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🙂
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Let the mind explore…Prompt 49 Frightened Exhilaration…story, poem, real or not…this should be interesting.
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Ah heights! When I purchased my condo in Toronto, I fell in love with the sunset BUT leaning on the railing of the balcony on the 20th floor made me feel quite whoozy.
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Woozy I think I would have been crying while looking out lol
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Nah, I got used to it. The first thing my 20 yr old son did was spit and see how it landed in the parking lot! 😀
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That is exactly what any 20 year old guy would do I suspect lol
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love the pic by the way
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Thank you =)
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Oooops, I posted it twice on Mr. Linky by mistake…sorry I was so late…(sigh) work got in the way.
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I am just glad to have you =) Even if you were late I would still read and comment on your entry
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Ah, thank you. Catamaran and riding on a motorcycle are probably the same thrill I have felt…Well, there are thrills of performance but I’ll save that for my other blog. Thanks for reading, Yves.
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As a kid I used to love riding ATVs
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And now?
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I haven’t been on one since I was a kid I am sure I’d like it still and I am sure Sam would haha
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I dated a guy 15 yrs ago for a month for his motorcycle…haha (it was one thing I had to cross off my bucket list)
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lol
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