"Leading Through My Fears."

Did you know that as a kid I would wake up in the middle of the night screaming at the top of my lungs? Not to mention that I ran to my parent’s room because of my nightmares? I was the type of kid that was terrified of the darkness, closets, clowns, dolls, etc. Most of probably came from all of the scary movies that I watched as a little kid and my interest in them though the nightmares made me sweat, of course my dad got frustrated after a while and told me the typical; “You have to face your fears” but I didn’t have the guts to face them. Now I’m in college and it was just recently October, the month of horror, I happened to have gone to the “Trail Of Terror” with a couple of friends and just one look at the place made my blood turn ice cold as I got a flashback of all the dreams that I had as a kid and blocked out for years. So you see the thing that was kind of ironic was that all of us were a bunch of babies. Go figure right?  Well just staying in line was an experience with 40 year old guys soaked in blood with chainsaws giving you chills but as we were about to enter the trail of terror we were told that we needed someone in the front. The choice was a landslide, I was voted to go first and surprisingly I took it without hesitating. Clowns, dolls, and insane people (literally) you name it, every single nightmare. I just walked in and went right through… no hesitation. It might not be a big leadership experience but it was pretty big for me.