Personal Narrative Essay: The Power Of Fear

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Fear is an interesting concept. It conjures images of weakness and flight; that moment when our physiology betrays us and we run for safety and self-preservation or become paralyzed. Fear can come like an unwanted visitor when we least expect it. At these moments we can lose control and feel utterly helpless, looking for an escape. Sometimes though, the escape route is obscured or non-existent forcing us to face it straight on. My heart was beating out of my chest and I wondered at the absurdity of what I was trying to do. I had driven into San Diego to take some photographs down by the naval yards. It was an overcast day and that meant I would have the light I preferred, especially when photographing gritty cityscapes. After taking my fill of photos I …show more content…
My old white van felt like a rocket with the addition of a heavy u-haul trailer that held the better part of our worldly belongings, that now seemed to be pushing me toward the steep mountain cliff off to my right. I had pushed the brake just once, let off and when my foot pushed down a second time, expecting to feel the safe resistance of the pedal, there was none, it went to the floorboard. I held tight to the wheel, my 10 year old daughter, Mariah buckled in the passenger seat next to me, looked at me and said, “It's okay, mama.” I had only moments to make the shot into a runaway truck lane. We came to a stop in a cloud of dust, hundreds of miles from anywhere. I turned the ignition off and I wept and I wept. It had been a close call, the kids were nervously laughing but I knew how close we had come to losing our lives. What I didn’t know was that moment, on those mountains so many years ago would follow me for years, in fact it had followed me to the base of the beautiful Coronado

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