"There has got to be a way down", I thought to myself as I stood on a platform high in the treetops.  Looking around, all I could see was the swinging log in front of me.  Everyone in front of me had traversed the log without incident, but I knew as soon as I stepped out onto it the cable above to which I was strapped would snap and I would fall to my death.  The people behind me had no such fears and were all urging me to "get going already!"  The last time I'd felt such paralyzing fear was several years ago when I'd gone sky-diving to impress a boy.  That 'boy' is now [...]