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Scare The Pants Of You!

Some people subscribe to the theory that as you grow older (especially at around the age were you start to get excited by the latest in hr management software…), you inevitably grow more afraid of things. I say what a load of old rubbish! Why should you? What possible reason is there for that to happen? In fact you would think it should be the other way around; after all, with age comes experience and so surely that must mean that you get better at coping with things, so why be afraid of them more?

It’s similar to when people say “children pick up languages so much quicker, they just seem to absorb it”. Also a load of rubbish. Children, and this has been proven, don’t learn or ’’absorb’'information any quicker than adults. The only difference between the two is that children are newer to it and thus have less preconceptions. In other words, adults have a habit of getting jaded and giving up on things. I should know this, I am one of those people.

So with all this in mind I now have a new challenge: to scare myself every single day. I don’t necessarily mean go base jumping daily, or wrestle a crocodile (though they are on the list–and I may even try to do them simultaneously) I mean just get scared. Watch a scary film, learn a new language, dare to by a shandy in the pub. Go to bed without getting my mug and tea-spoon out ready for the morning–(such a ritual now that I would prefer to wrestle a crocodile than face this in the morning, and sadly I am not joking.)

Follow my lead if you wish. Go on, scare yourself, you only live once and you need to feel alive, don’t you?