(August 16, 2016 at 12:12 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote:(August 16, 2016 at 4:40 am)paulpablo Wrote: My most obvious example is driving.
I used to be terrified, TERRIFIED, while doing my lessons of even driving down the road.
Now I'm almost too relaxed, I need to remind myself to not go to fast and to take it seriously.
I've never had an accident though and I'm a fairly careful driver, sort of.
I'm still afraid of going on stage but it's one of those fears that I've never thought I'd have trouble facing.
Asking girls out is something I've never done in person, I've never had a long term relationship that wasn't set up via the internet.
I feel you on the driving thing so much it isn't even funny. It took me 3 years to get my driver's license! My OCD hurt me really bad because I couldn't control the cars behind me. I was so paranoid I couldn't even use my rearview mirror and had to move it or I would obsessively check it. The only two times I have been in an 'accident' were where I wasn't even moving. I was just sitting there and someone rear ended me since they weren't paying attention. Guess my paranoia wasn't so unreasonable as I thought.
For my it was my first instructor that was really bad.
I never tried again for around 5 years.
After that it was just one year when winter was nearly approaching and i knew if I didn't pass it would be another year relying on the shittest public transport system you can imagine and walking across fields at night in the cold.
So with that incentive I passed everything first time in a fairly short time period.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
