Assignment 8- Gaby Rondel

Writing Territories

Fears: heights, not being successful, not being able to support me, public speaking, tight spaces, stairs with gaps in between each step

Annoyances: when I am (not other people) late, when I have to repeat myself more than twice, when someone asks a question the teacher just went over, when people act dumb but are actually smart and decent

Accomplishments: getting stuff done, being someone my parents are proud of

Confusions: how to write?, how people don't get simple assignments done

Sorrows: not sure I have any yet, I am fortunate enough to have a pretty great life

Dreams: travel every-frickin-where, to be able to have the life my parents gave me but have it on my own

Idiosyncrasies: book-lover, dork, I think numerically 

Risks: anytime I have faced one of my basic (non-existential) fears

Beloved Possessions, Now and Then: 

                now and then: my stuffed cat, friendships, my sister, the rest of my family

                now: my plants

Problems: forcing myself to do stuff I have no passion for (like 0- not even the slightest inkling to want to do it)

The risks I have taken are very minimal, at least what I consider minimal. I try to get over my not so bad fears, like heights and gaps and stairs/ladders. I feel like they go together and once I've gotten over one the other one would be exponentially easier to get over. II have mostly gotten over my fear of height, the problem I have is what it takes to get up to that height. I've zip-lined, which the worst part of that was not the jumping or actually going down the zipline, it was waiting on the old rickety wooden stairs on the way up to the platform. I love rollercoasters, especially if they are inside. I think that this is also one of those that I was scared of when I was younger because of the stairs/ladder on the way up. I have come to the conclusion that I am not scared of heights but just of the thing that gets me up to those heights. I'm not stupid enough to go to the very edge of a cliff, so I'm scared of the fall, so I'll gladly hike up a cliff. I love hiking, especially when the view is worth the hike.