Two sharp fangs pierce a thin layer of skin. There have been several bites throughout his life, but he still remembers that first one. “I’ll never forget it.” His muscles twitch in a chaotic melody, and in that sudden burst, far from terrifying him, something clicked in his brain. Was that what had been scaring him all these years? Yes: and suddenly, fear turned into curiosity, and then into obsession. A mania he deliberately pushed to the extreme. “From that moment on, I was hooked,” Highdro confesses to High Times regarding his obsession with… snakes!
American rapper Highdro is one of those people who have always faced their own fears head-on. That’s why, at one point, he confronted his fear of heights by jumping out of a plane and, later, with the same drive, he began rock climbing. At last, of all his fears, one remained: snakes. So he faced them. After overcoming that terror—because this man goes from one extreme to the other—he began successfully raising them. Yes, you read that right: Highdro raises snakes. “The next step was to turn that passion into a business,” he says.
And from that mindset, he offers a striking definition: “Snakes taught me that fear is a story we tell ourselves. When you eliminate that story, anything becomes possible.” He never thought he would be around snakes, let alone raising them. “They also taught me patience, adaptability, and that ‘misunderstood’ doesn’t mean ‘dangerous.’ I used to think that people who loved snakes were weird… now I’m one of them, and it turns out we’re just passionate, misunderstood, and too cool for the stereotypes,” he continues.
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Author: Hernán Panessi / High Times
