Jun 30 2008
Not afraid of heights.
Little kids are not afraid of anything. Climbing walls, jumping into swimming pools, roller coasters. They just laugh and scream and have a great time.
As we get older that feeling of invincibility goes away. No longer do we derive pleasure from standing on the side of a step cliff and looking down. We are afraid if taking a chance. We learned from life that we can get hurt, whether from the angst of love or from a biting sarcastic boss. The bullies we faced in high school have been replaced by intimidating employers and we don’t want to take the chance of losing our job because, I mean how would we make the house payment, keep the wife in flowers every week. We’re afraid of being boring and taking or being taken advantage of.
When we were kids we couldn’t wait to grow up so we could break the rules and do anything we wanted to do. When we become responsible adults we come to realize that there is still always someone dictating our lives to us anyway. Things don’t really change that much. You still get hurt falling from great heights.
