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When living in Cork I flew back to the UK quite frequently. Now however, It's been nearly a decade since I flew and I was a lot more scared than I expected. In fact the whole trip, whilst brilliant, showed me that I'm not as comfortable as I used to be, being out of my comfort zone! As a teen I had an amazing solo holiday in Egypt, and once gave a reading in front of a crowd of thousands in Polish (I didn't know much Polish, I read it phonetically). Today I had to talk myself down from feeling terrified by a taxi journey, not knowing the Italian for "slow down man, you have my family in your care!"

I know some of it is hormonal. Teenagers are more thrill seeking. I like novelty, but not thrills. And I'm glad to get back to my embracing uncertainty book, I think I need to take it to heart a lot more yet.