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Personal Narrative: I Believe In Taking Risks

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I believe in taking risks. This doesn’t mean needlessly risking your life, but rather getting outside of your comfort zone to grow and expand. My regrets have relentlessly drilled this lesson into my head. Whether we’re willing to admit it or not, most growth happens outside of our comfort zones. We can’t repeat the same mundane process day in and day out and expect different results. This is simply insane, yet most of us do this. Rather, we must take calculated risks and ignore out irrational fears to experience higher levels of fulfilment and satisfaction. One simple example of this insanity can be found in a personal anecdote of mine. When I was around 10, all I wanted to do on my family vacations was to go swimming with my brothers. But, there was a problem. I …show more content…

Or, rather, I had never tried to swim. I had this burning desire to enter the water and swim, but my fear of drowning was totally halting this whole process. But, finally, after about a year of fighting this internal battle, I won. I held my breath, jumped in, and before I knew it, I was swimming. Even at this young age, I understood how foolish it was for me to have been afraid to take this risk towards something I really wanted. From that day forward, I began to attack my fears, rather than cower from them. Consequently, when I found something I was afraid of I would first ask myself if this fear was truly rational. If not, I would do my best to overcome it. One example of this was demonstrated when I took cold showers for 120 straight days. I had read online about how there were some health benefits to it including improved circulation, strengthened immune system, and even decreased storage of fat.

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