A Day Of Conquering Fears
Today, I joined Triaxion--a team sport with 3 legs: dodgeball, lazer tag and wall climbing.
Those who've known me for quite some time will know that (a) I am deathly afraid of getting hit by flying balls--hence my avoidance of PETEAMS during college and (b) that I am mortified of heights. So it might be strange that I even considered competing in dodgeball and wall climbing. But such is my love for lazer tag that I decided to risk it (no way in hell would I miss a lazer tag tournament!)
Anyway.
Long story short... my team (composed of Me, Robert Totanes, Kuya John Tan, Vivi de Zuzuarregui, and Aimee, Melchor, JR and Kelvin of UNTV) made it to 4th place in Dodgeball. Our first loss was to Stripped Life, a team of really huuuuge foreigners who were out for blood! Our second loss was to the Jokers team, where one of them hit me with the ball smack dab in the middle of my face. Hmph. That smarted, haha. But I was a good sport about it and it definitely did decrease my fear of balls (the flying kind, sports, y'know).
We got 3rd place in Lazer Tag. Originally our scores qualified us for second, but a really good team (composed of lazer xtreme's owners as well as game captains, lol) squarely beat us during the semifinals. All's well and good--we had fun naman. But Caloy's driving me crazy--he ALWAYS manages to hit me. Apparently he studied my patterns of movement na pala. Hmph. I'll get better. I promise. :p
And of course, wall climbing. My knees were literally shaking from fear, but my team mates (and even our other competitors) were egging me on! I stopped several times and asked them if I could go down, but they kept on cheering me and refusing to let go of the rope, lol. So I had no choice but to go up, and up, and up... and before I knew it, the top of the wall was within reach! I pulled whatever strength I had in me and went all the way to the top. Yey! Strangely, the height wasn't that scary--it was the exhaustion that almost got me giving up. Or maybe that was just because of the mixture of adrenaline and supportive cheers from down below. But I am definitely trying wall climbing again--in fact I set a tentative date next week with Kuya John. Those who are interested are free to join. :)
Really, really, really happy I conquered some of my biggest fears today (if only for today). Really looking forward to more adventures. Those with adventure ideas (like the walkathon idea of kuya john), kindly let me know and then we'll see if we can do it. Yeah!
Currently feeling: energetic