Personal Narrative: My Obstacles In My Life

I have experienced many obstacles in my life, but there’s that one obstacle that changed my life in a way I didn’t imagine. As a matter of fact I was not aware that such thing would present itself as an obstacle in my life but it did. In 2006 I joined the U.S. Army and was shipped off to Basic Combat Training. Just being there was a challenge on itself. During Basic Training we were taken to The Confidence Obstacle Course. At first I thought it was easy, run over logs, climb short walls, swing on ropes and a few other things that in reality were a lot of fun. And right before the end of the day the Drill Sergeants took us to the last obstacle. A 40 feet high tower with ropes going down to the ground and away from the tower. From the ground level it didn’t look that bad for me, but once I climbed on top and was told by my Drill Sergeant to slide down the rope head first I panicked. Until that day I was not aware of how afraid I was of heights. It took some time for me to gather the confidence I needed to slide down the rope and finally after some encouragement from my Drill Sergeant I did it. My fear of
I love to fly on planes but there’s nothing like flying with the Blue Angels. Going on a Fighter Jet forty thousand feet above the ground at Mach 1, was almost a life changing experience on itself. I’ve jumped out of planes multiple times but unfortunately I have not done a free fall jump, yet. A while back I was challenge by a friend to climb to the top of a water tower in South Korea near the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone, the border between North and South Korea). And I did. To my surprise it wasn’t been a couple of hundred feet off the ground just holding myself with my hands to the latter railing that made this such a good adventure, it was the chance to look into North Korea from such a high point that made the challenge so satisfying. But I still look for new heights and new