# Vulnerability Flights

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-10-01

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The reaction may be different.

Tension in the belly, a deep ache.

Perhaps it’s a shot of some chemical through the body, that makes me feel my heart pumping harder.

Or it may be outwardly directed. A burst of frustration. Perhaps irritation; even anger.

Maybe it’s another flick of the doom scroll. Or a check of an app.

Whatever it is, it’s often the same cause.

A feeling of vulnerability…from which I want to run away, fly away, as quickly as possible.

Now, at least, I recognize that’s the source.

Or, at least, I think it is.

Can I just meet it where it is and not run from it?

I don’t know.

But I am going to try.

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*Originally published on [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/vulnerability-flights)*