I watch anxiously from the safety of the ground while my friends clamber onto the awaiting carriage. I graze my eyes over the entire structure of the attraction, the tall loop earning nausea to swirl through my stomach at the sight.

"Are you sure you don't want to come Audrey?" I'm called back down to rest my eyes on my friend, Sophie, she gestures for me to come but I plant my feet down to the soiled ground. I express my distaste to the ride with my hesitance, but it's ignored when my other friend, Brooklyn shouts me over, "Come on Audrey! It's fun!"

I notice the annoyed line of people behind them, waiting frustrated for the line to get a move on. When I suddenly taste blood in my mouth I realise I have to decide quick, my lips now tingling with the over-biting. I take another once over of the large ride, I really don't like high places, like really don't like. A nagging feeling always eating away in my stomach and my mind always clouded with anxiety causing me to never enjoy the ride.

I would love to be ridden of the irrational fear that locks me to the ground of the Earth, and I'm coming to realise that I have never actually tried to deal with the fear. I pause for only a second more, before forcing my legs to pull me forwards towards the group of girls, earning a course of cheers and whoops to erupt.

"Yas, Audrey! You got this!"

I take a deep breath and settle myself next to them at the end, clutching tightly to the side wall and my friend's hand. Another breath. I close my eyes for what seems only a few seconds. I open.

And the world is beautiful.