Personal Narrative Prompt

Sweating Hands

Narrative Prompt Fear is a feeling you get when you get scared and nervous. Fear is an uneasy feeling about something and you don’t want to face it. Everyone has at least one fear. You can fear anything from small dolls, dark, tight spaces, Halloween, ghosts, devils, being up on stage, heights, or even mirrors. I have a fear of one main thing, heights. I don’t really like the idea of climbing up a wall that is high even with protection. When I start to put my protection belt on, what if questions overload my brain barely letting concentrate on what I actually have to do. What if I break my head? What if I fracture my leg? What if I break my arm? What if I dislocate a bone? With all these unanswerable questions in my head, I am afraid of climbing walls.

It was summertime and school just ended about 1 week ago. My dad decided to take Sibhi and me to City Beach to rock climb. When I was going there I was all so over-confident, brave, and I thought I had everything in my hands to finish that rock climbing wall. I was so excited that I could rock climb and was annoying Sibhi who was right next to me giving no reaction. After we got there, I was still excited and called “dibs” on going first to rock climb. I was all good until this part where I had to put my knee where my face was. I thought that was just freaky, so I just got down from the climbing wall. When Sibhi went, he aced it! I felt so disappointed and sad. I knew another day I would try climbing that same wall and acing