fieryearth
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Scariest Memory/Story...
ok you do not have to tell the "scariest", but something that scared you...
I almost walked off a cliff to meet the rushing current about nine hundred feet below..not intentionally of course. I had gone with my sister and some friends to West Virginia for our annual white water rafting excursion. After a day on the river, our rafting guide asked us if we wanted to join he and his friends later that night to watch the fireworks (it was the 4th of July weekend). So, later that night, after getting lost a few times, we finally made it to the place which was literally right in the middle of nowhere (even according to WV standards). It was pitch black outside so all you could discern were the sounds of voices. I must have been in an extremely good mood, because I started running along a path toward the voices, not knowing that only a foot or so away was a 900 foot drop (at least). I about had a heart attack when someone passing by told me. We couldn't see the path in front of us, only feel our way, so it then took us a painstakingly long time to reach the secluded spot at the edge of the cliff where everyone was (about 15 or so people already drunk to the point of stumbling). Needless to say, I was shaken up for the rest of the night, so much so that I couldn't even enjoy the spectacular view over the ravine. What scared me even more though was how close the other people were to stumbling over the edge, hell they could barely stand. I remember very vidly (well, it was only a few years ago, I hope I remember, lol) this girl was so close to the edge she was almost halfway hanging over it. And so I asked her why she wasn't scared to be sitting that close. Her response was an epiphany for me, she said "You live to die". I swear, that statement really hit me. It was like Tolstoy said "The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless", only it was much more poignant. It pretty much changed how I viewed a lot of things, and I stopped taking things so seriously. Maybe I find beauty in the strangest things, but I thought her philosophy was so beautiful, the fact that all you have is the present. And while life is fleeting and without objective meaning, it is imprinted with those memorable times when we least expect it. And I guess life wouldn't even have that subjective meaning it holds for all of us, if it weren't so fleeting.
Once on a construction site, I was bent over, picking up some scraps to move to another location (laborer) ..
someone called my name, so I stood up ..
a split second later, a sledge hammer came through the wall where my head had been while bending over ..
during a demolition, safety precautions dictate that every person has to be notified and the premises vacated, and this was a jerk who wasn't following the rules ..
doesn't matter, though .. no matter who's fault .. had I still been there, it would have bashed my head in
someone called my name, so I stood up ..
a split second later, a sledge hammer came through the wall where my head had been while bending over ..
during a demolition, safety precautions dictate that every person has to be notified and the premises vacated, and this was a jerk who wasn't following the rules ..
doesn't matter, though .. no matter who's fault .. had I still been there, it would have bashed my head in
OMG!
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