A Year of Overcoming Challenges

Updates: The event has been postponed to a yet-to-be-announced date!  Woo hoo!!!  I’ve got more time to psych myself up for it, yaay!

I just ended a call from a PR rep who wanted to sign me up for some extreme park media challenge at the end of the month.  The challenge is pretty daunting – paintball (erks!), flying fox (mamma mia!), all-terrain vehicle ride (oooh yeah!) and the list goes on.  I just wanted to give the all-terrain vehicle ride a go to see what it’s like.  The rest of it, I sort of tried before but didn’t like them. But in the spirit of trying new things at least once, I go, I go.

Truth be known, I ain’t no adrenaline junkie.

I don’t need to get my fix by bungee jumping, going for roller coaster rides or getting into the horrifying ship ride.  I am perfectly happy to get my foodie fix every now and then.  I don’t need to watch horror movies every now and then to keep my blood pumping.  I go to the gym or swim instead.

Yet somehow, I look back at the year that is flying furiously fast and marvelled at the stuff I’ve done that I would have shirked from previously.  I participated in my first 10k run.  Did discovery diving in July and became a certified open water diver in Sept.  And currently learning to develop more water confidence and swimming skills.

Perhaps next year, conquering my fear of heights will be next in the menu?  If so, then the theme of next year will be ‘A Year of Overcoming Challenges’.  Well, we shall see.

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