Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Emotional Intimacy Question: Craziest Thing

Folks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. This is the current list.

20. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done and would you do it again?

... just one?  *laugh*  I'm not even going to try ranking them.  I'll just pick one that popped into my head: the time I went hiking near Half-Dome and decided to swim out to a rock in a freezing-cold pool, in my clothes.  It gave me such a feeling of accomplishment, for no other reason than it was wild and hard and I wanted to do it and I did.  I got in trouble, but that was for timespace slipping, not getting wet.  While I regret scaring the skin off my parents and wish we'd thought of using a safety line when I was younger, I would still do the swim again.  
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elenbarathi

elenbarathi

February 28 2019, 18:24:08 UTC 2 years ago

"I got in trouble, but that was for timespace slipping, not getting wet. While I regret scaring the skin off my parents and wish we'd thought of using a safety line when I was younger,"

...??? 'Timespace slipping'? 'Safety line'?
ysabetwordsmith

Well ...

ysabetwordsmith

March 1 2019, 11:08:12 UTC 2 years ago

I'm fey. The local timespace continuum has a feeble grip on me. If I don't pay attention, I drift a little out of touch. People will trip over me. Roads cross that shouldn't. Time moves faster or slower, clocks get screwy. That sort of thing. It took me many years of concerted effort to get even somewhat good at remaining visible. I still forget sometimes.

Safety line: a rope or similar object attaching two or more people. I believe this would've minimized my tendency to get separated from folks, saving us all a lot of upset. By now, I just hang onto someone's hand or clothes.
elenbarathi

Re: Well ...

elenbarathi

March 1 2019, 17:29:50 UTC 2 years ago Edited:  March 1 2019, 18:29:49 UTC

LOL, okay; I can relate to that. All through childhood, either I wasn't where I was supposed to be, or I was where I was supposed to be, but got in trouble anyway because they didn't see me. Teachers would mark me absent when I was sitting in the front row and had said "Here!" twice. I thought it was just me, but my kid had it happen too. We were the Best Ever at 'Capture the Flag' and 'Ghost In The Graveyard', and undefeated at Sheep War.

Sheesh, at camping events I got tired of people walking into me at night all the time, so I started wearing ankle bells on my boots. Then they were still walking into me, because every time I'd forget about the bells, they'd stop ringing - I'd have to skip or stomp to keep them going.

Ah, so a safety line would have kept you from going in the water in the first place. But what fun would that have been? I can't believe some of the incredibly poor choices I've made re water, and yet I wouldn't have missed any of them.