Conquer your fears. But have fun doing it

Travelling through the unknowns can be thrilling. It starts with a different perspective of what fear means.

The writer squeezing through crevices during a spelunking adventure at the Ugong Rock in the Philippines. ST PHOTO: LEE SIEW HUA
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“Do one thing every day that scares you,” my young friend Tracey once declared, her sunny face solemn for a moment.

Poised on the rim of a cliff, we stared at the 800m zipline that would wing us relentlessly down the forested hill to an islet far below. To muster our courage, she was quoting the late fearless US first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

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