Sentinel said 10 years, 10 months ago:

And so I stood. And I so wondered.

I wondered what brought the edge so close as this. The distance to a new place seemed so far off. A gap surely far beyond me.
So I ran. I ran with little heed to the fear, woes and worries that might beset me. I turned my head to that distant shore of something new.
I slept, I awoke.
I wept and I smiled. Trying to forget that ominous divide.

For fear of seeing that fateful shore I stood stagnant. I feared not what I was, but what I could be. After growing wearing of sleep, and the smiles and tears grew distant, I decided I must return.

I feared the journey back to the edge, as I had wandered so far, terrified of the prospect of change.
I feared the fall, the failure. Their laughter. My shame.
And thus I feared all the way back to the edge. Thus I fear today. Thus the temptation of the distant shore eludes me.