Why a Calculated Life Didn’t Prepare Me as I Had Thought

Compulsive fear drove me to a prison of the mind.

Adam J. Cheshier
Ascent Publication
Published in
4 min readAug 31, 2021

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Photo by Cristofer Jeschke on Unsplash

In 2018, something really terrible happened in my life. I am to blame, nobody else. I’ve told the story countless times and would be happy to never tell it again, but you can read about it if it piques your interest.

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Adam J. Cheshier
Ascent Publication

Documenting obscure pockets of the world across long-distance overland expeditions. Recently celebrated 7 years of nomadism. https://linktr.ee/adam.cheshier