<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Pickle Dan wrote</title><author_name>Pickle Dan (npub16e…0y9v6)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub16e3vzr7dk2uepjcnl85nfare3kdapxge08gr42s99n9kg7xs8xhs90y9v6</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>This note is more of a journal entry allowing me to vent my current frustrations. Please excuse my negativity. Please do not let it ruin your day.&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;ve been thinking a lot about some fears I have. Some of which I&#39;m beginning to think may be perpetuated by past trauma. Fears that have been with me for a decade. &#xA;&#xA;I&#39;m in my thirties now and think this fear has held me back greatly. Almost as if I sacrificed a great deal of my youth that was my twenties due to this fear.&#xA;&#xA;The fear stems from my epileptic seizures. I&#39;ve been afraid of travel and adventure because of this. I&#39;m restricted in my access to easy travel because of this because of concerns with driving. I have some folks in my life who are always offering me transportation, but even this does not solve my problem.&#xA;&#xA;Something as simple as going to the store which would be a 5 minute drive is a 10-15 minute bike ride. In the Summer, not much of an issue, weather permitted. In the Winter, the cold temperature with strong wind make it demoralizing. I can do it. I sometimes do, but I wouldn&#39;t use the word easy.&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;m afraid to be alone not for the sake of loneliness, but in case I might fall down once more while surrounded by strangers. To wake up once again in an ambulance being taken somewhere unknown to me by strangers in uniforms. Then given a costly bill for something I never asked for. Even worse when I wake up early enough to tell the strangers to leave me where they found me.&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;m afraid that one of these times will be a time in which I do not wake up. I&#39;m afraid of that, too.&#xA;&#xA;I don&#39;t want to be afraid anymore. I&#39;m tired of saying this to myself.&#xA;&#xA;Fear.&#xA;&#xA;#epilepsy</html></oembed>