People always encourage “new”,

Try new foods,

 Engage in new activities,

Explore new challenges,

Step out of your comfort zone,

Expand in the world,

Find something about yourself,

It can be rather fun sometimes,

Like stepping on that first roller coaster

with determination and fear,

Other times rather embarrassing,

Like learning to swim when 

you’re 12 and 5’7” with a high bone density

that makes it look like you’re drowning instead,

But it’s the so-called “experience”

that triumphs it all,

Makes you realize 

what you’ve been missing out on,

That the ride wasn’t bad at all

and now you wanna go on the biggest one,

Or that swimming is useful after all

and all that embarrassment was worth it

to possibly save your life in the future,

In the end, my brain wanders to 

its unnecessary and mindless thinking,

“What took you so long?

Why didn’t you just take the first step?”