Make me Proud Writing Prompt Week 2
In 2012 I started to face some very inconvenient truths. I dealt with this stress by walking. One day, I found out that the local high school track was open to the public. As I was walking the track and doing a circuit in the bleachers, someone approached me about a team that they had formed. The team was going to do something called “Sky Rise Chicago.” The goal was to get to the top of the Willis Tower climbing 103 stories. 2,109 steps . Once you got to the top, you were to go out and take photos on the glass ledge. I didn’t know much about the ledge, and I only knew Willis Tower as Sears Tower. I am deathly afraid of heights. The idea of standing out on a piece of glass surrounding the city terrified me. So I was in! Through the summer, I got together with the team to climb stairs at several local spots and started participating in 5K races (walking of course) I was slow, but my goal was never to win, just to finish. I later fo...
