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Twixt the tethers of Heaven
And Earth,
Swings the trust
In the ropes
That you’d learned but
Perhaps
Did not quite
Yet test out.
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Ow, no, I’m all scrunched up just looking. Shudders. But I admire those who do
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Yeah, it is my nephew in the photo … Truth is, I would probably be happy to do this, too! It’s the spinning and tossing and upside-down milk-shaking that bothers me in roller-coasters, not the height. Not sure my body would allow this kind of rappelling at this time in my life, but I did marvelously well, and only with small adaptations, in the jungle ziplines in Thailand … so going across in the air can’t be THAT harder than going down … 😉
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Well I suppose it might rid me of my desire to jump from high places…
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Oy, yeah … that’s a tough one … and hopefully only remains a metaphor …
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I think it’s a desire to do something irreversible. My mother couldn’t carry a handbag across a bridge (she always gave it someone else to hold) cos she had a great urge to throw it into the water. The irreversible. I don’t claim to understand it, but I know it’s an impulse shared by many is various ways
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I can certainly understand it, even if most of us don’t act on it, I think many of us have it, at least in some points in our lives.
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Hmm.
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And … it is a good thing to know what spots (e.g. bridges…) may be places to take special care to not do irreversible things we will regret …
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As my mother would give her bag to someone else to hold, and I might stay away from the edge. Though less so now that I’ve no longer the height fear
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Indeed! And … I’m glad you don’t fear heights anymore. It is a difficult fear to overcome or even manage.
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I had a viral infection of the brain. I lost a lot of connections. Fully fine now (I think). But one of the things I lost was the fear of heights, not realised until my daughter remarked that I was walking along the edge of a cliff… I would never have done that! I was too scared to go up a step-ladder.
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Wow. Well, I guess sometimes there are unexpected ‘benefits’ even to brain infections. Yikes. …
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Yea. I could bore you with the full tale, but shan’t. Many, many benefits. But didn’t feel like it during the recovery.
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I bet it didn’t feel like it at the time, nor would it be the preferred way to ‘get’ the benefits … Feel free to ‘bore me’ any time! 🙂
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I thank you. Another time 🙂
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🙂
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Yes … and sometimes just good to know where we may need someone to hold our bag .. 😉
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wow…no thanks
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LOL! I hear you … 😉 It’s my nephew, hanging out there … 😉
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I can’t do that…even when I was younger 😂 but very courageous of him!
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He’s quite fearless. Not so much careless as truly fearless! 🙂
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!…אמיץ ומרתק לראות את העולם מהגובה
..מאפשר פרספקטיבה
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Indeed!
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