I’ll be the first to admit that I get scared relatively easily.
When my buddies asked me to come along with them to go camping, I was entirely hesitant. I never was big into camping even though I did go a few times when I was younger with my family. I didn’t have a tent or anything but my friends said I could borrow their extra tent and sleeping bag. So we went out into the wilderness. It wasn’t an official camping ground or anything and I was nervous when it became dark in the middle of the woods. I started thinking about bears, wolves, and mountain lions and I was kind of nervous for my life. We all were sitting around the fireplace with a roaring fire which was comfortable, but I kept hearing all these strange noises coming from the woods. I even heard the sound of wolves howling which made me petrified. My buddies said they would not come to bother us because they did this all the time. When we finally went to go sleep in our tents, I realized I didn’t have any kind of portable heater system or anything to keep me warm. I had to huddle up in my sleeping bag and I felt really chilly. I kept trying to sleep but I couldn’t because I kept hearing crazy noises from the woods. Eventually I went to one of my buddy’s tents where it was nice and toasty because he had a portable heater running. I asked if I could sleep in there and he said it was no problem. I was actually able to get some sleep after that. Honestly after that experience, I don’t think I want to go camping again anytime soon.