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Monday 6 August 2007
The Best Thrill of Your Life
Some people want to go faster than light. Others just want to drop from 1,000 feet and live because hell, it makes them feel immortal.
Me, I’m still looking for the best thrill of my life.
Filed under: general, faith(less), creativity
Posted by: Molly | 5:55 pm |
August 6th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Holzschlag–
Have done a lot of things … shot out of submarines, the elvis has left the aircraft from 6 miles high and at night, peeled off gigantic rocks in zipper falls, puked inside cockpits of aircraft piloted by crazed aviators, other adrenalin rushes that I don’t even care to remember. As far as thrills … you can bet your sweet ass on two things … one, the greatest thrills are the simple things and most of those are free .. two, bend over and kiss your butt that some wishes have never come true. Got a cold beer?
August 7th, 2007 at 1:22 am
If it’s a thrill at all, it’s a slow pulsing one that surges and ebbs leaving vapour trails of joy and magic: Children! Carnage-mongers they may be, bringing untold mischief and mayhem, but damn me if my boys don’t make my heart soar like a hawk and quietly eclipse every other thrill I now struggle to recall.
August 7th, 2007 at 2:45 am
I have to admit to a couple of phobias and I don’t really like rollercoasters…
I did roll a Repco dragster end on end three times way back in about 1977 - but that was just scarey.
I did jump off that same pushbike coming down a gravel hill from a lighthouse when I noticed a bull on the road - I left my friend on the bike (I was dinking)…
I even rode it off the end of a jetty and had to wait until the tide went out to get my bike back… oh 1977 was a very good year.
Then I got the 25 and a half inch purple with gold trim Malvern Star Roadster, yes 25 and a half inches of pure throbbing bipedal excitement!
Not the thrill of my life but I’d count them all way up there!
August 7th, 2007 at 4:38 am
Realy good thoughts.
No one can go faster than light
Regards Moly.
August 7th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Right now the overall best thrill of my life would have to be my son- which only keeps getting better over time.
Skydiving was amazing back when I was active in the sport, scuba is the most otherworldly thrill I’ve experienced, but at a base adrenaline level nothing beats standing (metaphorically) naked on a stage with instrument, mike, and the rumble of a crowd surrounding me. No contest whatsoever. If someone could bottle up that feeling and market it, I’d be banished to rehab within a week’s time.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:31 am
The best thrill of my life? Getting my bachelor’s degree in 2000 — walking into the arena filled with cheering, clapping, waving people, my friends among them — knowing I’d pulled it off against all odds.
Going through the ceremony again this year when I got my MFA? Icing.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Hmm. Since one of my passions is Poker, a great thrill for me came while playing a casino tournament last week, and knocking sending two other players home with a pair of deuces.
That’s just me. Personally, I’m not looking for the thrill of my life. I’ll take a whole bunch of little thrills, thanks.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
I’ve lived long enough to have a long, long list of thrills. Thank you for reminding me. Truly.
But I do remember, back in the day, when I was a midwife….not sure I’d finished my apprenticeship, had been to maybe 30 births, but never alone.
Someone pounding on the door, crying out.
I opened the door, and a young woman I’d never seen before screamed, (I’ll call the mother Susan) “Susan’s having her baby, and the doctor’s not here yet!” I think I said, “Who is Susan?” “My sister, on the other side of the street! She’s having the baby! You have to come!” I picked up my heavy bag and my oxygen tank, and fueled by adrenaline I didn’t even feel, I ran down the street. The front door opened on a room full of cries and fear. Oh, yeah. She was having the baby. We had five minutes, tops. I must have had great training, because the first thing I did was just sit down next to her on the floor, look right at her and calmly say, “You and the baby will be fine.” Then I gave a bunch of orders to the sister and the baby’s father, asked some key questions, spread out the absolute essentials, worked with her breathing, etc. to help ease the baby out as slowly as possible, checked for the cord, felt the wet, pink, warmth of new life in my hands, saw the eyes that are so deep you could fall into eternity just looking at them, and handed the baby to the mother. Skip to next scene, for the sake of queasy male readers. I’m standing in their bathroom doing the routine placental exam, and suddenly I felt the rush of adrenaline that had been flowing through my body. My legs started shaking, as I stood there alone in the bathroom. Outside, I heard the doctor arrive, to much fanfare. She came in the bathroom to see what I was doing, glared at me, and left the room. Ha! I congratulated everyone, packed up my gear and, legs still shaky, but with a grin a mile wide, carried my bags back home.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:49 am
I want to experience every thrilling moment I can experience but I have no time for this, I’m a very busy man. All I do is just sit here in my computer and do my job, its very hard for an all around coder to manage his/ her time. Because of the filled up work in the computer, fixing writing, editing, etc. I can’t even fix dinner, and the only noise you will hear in my room is the fart sounds roaring in the room. Well my family laughs when they hear it.
August 20th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
you are looking for the best thrill of my life?
that’s will be harder than drop from 1,000 feet and go faster than light.
and when the time is come, you must prepare your self, you must strong enough to face it, if not, you might not survive. am I right Molly?
January 31st, 2008 at 3:39 am
nice archive
January 31st, 2008 at 3:39 am
thanks
January 31st, 2008 at 3:40 am
good archive
January 31st, 2008 at 3:40 am
thanks molly
January 31st, 2008 at 3:41 am
very thanks
March 30th, 2008 at 9:43 am
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June 20th, 2008 at 8:35 am
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June 20th, 2008 at 8:36 am
thanx form an
June 20th, 2008 at 8:36 am
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