Day 28 - Up, up and away....

Been gone a while, because I've had nothing much to say but hell do I have something to share today.
My whole life I have let my weight hold me back. "Oh no I can't do that people will laugh at me." I can't do that" and so I have let alot of really cool things pass me by. Using my weight as an excuse and worrying too much about what other people will think.
Well today at climbing I decided to stop hiding behind my weight, I put on a harness and I climbed.
I got about a metre off the ground and thought, I can't do this. Then I thought about the 9 and 10 year olds down there and what sort of role model would I'd be if I wimped out. So I moved my leg, moved my arm and soon I was just concentrating on where to put the next hand and the next foot and the all of a sudden there where no more, I had reached the top (about 20m), looking down I was petrified and the abseiling down the wall seemed much harder in comparison to the climb up the wall.
Once down visibly shaking but smiling from ear to ear, I knew that I had managed to fight through my fear, not my fear of climbing, so much as the fear I have of people's opinions of me. Today I went up, up and away and so did my confidence, I hope that my new found fearlessness will encourage my own children to work through and get passed their fears.

In love and light.