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my confidence is my power

October 26, 2021
By Anonymous

Humans or people get scared of a lot of things it either heights, snakes or even aggressive dogs. My fear was riding on fast and highly sped up roller coasters. This happened back in 2018 when I went visited Six Flags in texas with family. My older sister wanted to go on this joker ride that went upside down and when she told me she wanted me to go with her on the ride I started to hyperventilate hypervenilate the entire time and starting overthinking everything. I was like let'slets at leastatleast go on the slow rides it'sits so fun and the joker ride is nothing compared to it. My sister told me I had to go because she did not want to go on a ride and sit near a stranger, cause it would have been awkwardakward and messed up. So I started thinking to myself that the rides are all extremely safe and no incident had happened recently, I should be confident. I went to the line, it took so many hours, I thought the year fast forwarded to the year 7000 or something. My sister went to sit on one of the seats and I did too. I started asking the ride control people that if the ride was safe.They ignored me, I felt like my heart was about turn into some disgusting goo because how I was fearing to much. Someone shouted at a another person hope you do not fall. Even more panic attacks had came along and hopped right on through. The ride moved slowly I saw the sunlight reflect on my face and it was blinding me. I closed my eyes while my older sister yelled that she was very excited. Then were at the top and I saw some adorable birds flying all over the place as if they were mocking me. Then the roller coaster slowly moved then out of the blue. The ride went extremely fast and I thought to myself this roller coaster could probably out run Dash from the Disney movie The Incredibles. Then I was singing a song just to hide the pain and fear I had in my face. The other people that were on the ride were laughing while I had clear as crystal tears in my eyes. But when the ride was over I thought to myself, “at leastatleast I didn'tdid’nt run away, and I faced my fears and so much more”. This is why my confidence is my power.


The author's comments:

I am very confident time to time and a person who is a bottle full of anxiety.i really love expressing myself out.


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