Spiced up my life!

This past Saturday, instead of taking the elevator down, I repelled down - a 20 storey building.

I'm the one on the left in the red tutu.

You must be saying to yourself:

"Whaaaaaat you crazy dare devil you!!"

"Wow I would have passed out!"

"WHY DID YOU DO THIS?!"

Why not?

I remember the day I said yes to it. A few co-workers were talking about doing it and I remember saying "wow that'd be really cool to be able to do that!". And because our all dude rock station had no volunteers (the boys were scurred) I volunteered. This was in February.

After I volunteered I understood why the guys were scared. Its a tall ass building 20 storeys!

I feel like when I found that out I should have started exercising, working my muscles. Making my body stronger. But I didn't. I ate a lot of bad food, and was extremely lazy.

If you've seen someone repel before. It doesn't look like a lot of hard work. The ropes seem like they are doing the work for you....BUT your body tightens up and tenses and you're using your arms a lot. You're placing them in positions for a decent amount of time, that you normally wouldn't place them. Like your right hand for instance goes like behind your back with your hand kind of grazing your butt, while your left is kind of up like a chicken wing.

I'm incredibly sore!

Saturday as I stood on top of the building looking around at the excellent view, I found myself....not really nervous. I felt like I should have been more nervous. But I was calm, and funny....and good to go!

HOWEVER, once I got about half way down...and was going fast. I had a few minutes of panic. Where I felt like my body just couldn't go any further....which is dumb because I was half way down a 20 storey building....I couldn't just stay there, I had to finish! So I start singing Spice up your life by the Spice Girls as its playing down below and that kept me going!

I'm insanely impressed with myself for completing my task without tears or fear! I know we are all scared of something, heights, clowns etc. But facing a fear, or doing something you think you'd never be able to do...is incredibly worth it. I had so many people tell me they could never have done it, but maybe those people should push themselves a little bit out of their comfort zones and take on something challenging.

I blogged last Tuesday about depression and how I find it hard sometimes to find the reason for living. But after Saturday I think I understand. I think the reason for living is the challenges you face, and eventually defeat! So keep defeating those challenges and living.