A travel agent I know only online posted this image this morning and I took issue. I deleted my comment before I posted it and this is why I started this series on my website.

Why scary? I’ve been flying alone since I was 10, shipped off to see my sister for a couple weeks each summer. My mother dropped me off on the curb at the Minneapolis airport. Not once do I remember anyone ever saying to me, it’ll be scary but that’s okay. And as an adult? Why start with that? It’s exciting and fun and that’s the expectation I would prefer to start with.

America’s culture is so fond of scaring people we do it now without thinking. At a guess if I had a conversation with the agent she would have no recognition of what she did by calling it scary.

Did you know fear and excitement produce the same hormones? We get to choose which it is, fear or fun? I will choose the fun version each and every time.