Things I Fear: Third

[mancalledtrue]

Let us continue down this fairly elaborate rabbit hole.  What's the third of what scares me?

#3: HEIGHTS

"I'm afraid of depths!"
"Heights.  You're afraid of heights."
"Heights I'm fine with!  It's the depths that kill you!"
- Discworld

I have a very-poorly tuned sense of balance.  I fall over easily.  So when I look over a ledge and see the ground is a very far distance away, my stomach turns itself inside-out.  Anything over about two stories can trigger this, but I'm mostly all right until about a hundred feet or so.

My OCD is in part responsible for why this is so bad in this day and age...  If I look over a ledge, I sometimes suffer from the urge to jump off of it.  As with all compulsions, I am under no actual need to PERFORM it, but it's still there.

Needless to say, I tend to be given rooms on high floors when I stay in hotels, because fate loves making me its bastard.