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injest:
--- Quote from: shakestheground on July 18, 2008, 08:14:34 am ---I'll be heading out to the Outer Banks of North Carolina tomorrow for a week. Will be staying in Nags Head, right across the street from the ocean, where I plan to spend a lot of time, becoming the only person I know to have actually read Satanic Verses.
Monday morning I will be going to Hang Gliding School at Jockey's Ridge State Park, something I have wanted to do for years. Maybe I will follow thru on it, maybe it will be like the rapelling attempt, o-well either way it will be there and not here.
Hopefully I will be able to get on line and post pictures.
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Good luck, Truman! There is NOTHING more exhilarating than being really really scared and pushing thru it. You will feel like you could do anything!
There is a lady I am teaching to ride...she is an older woman and overweight, never has done anything athletic but something in her has clicked and she wants to do things she has always dreamed of before time runs out..She literally shakes when it is time to get on....but when she DOES get into the saddle she is sooo happy, she says she feels more alive than at any other time...sometimes she just pumps the air with her fists and says YES!! I did it!! and that is a big deal for this woman, she has such low self esteem.
I had a bad wreck last year, got bucked off and stepped on, I couldn't get back on at the time (too injured) so it was a while before I got to ride again. I still can taste the terror, standing there beside that horse holding the mane and looking at the stirrup.
I also can remember the incredible release and power I felt when my behind hit the saddle. It is addictive.
so anyway the whole point I am trying to make is that it is ok to be scared but there is a wonder beyond that fear that is MORE than worth it. Trust yourself, you can do this.
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: shakestheground on July 18, 2008, 08:14:34 am ---I'll be heading out to the Outer Banks of North Carolina tomorrow for a week. Will be staying in Nags Head, right across the street from the ocean, where I plan to spend a lot of time, becoming the only person I know to have actually read Satanic Verses.
Monday morning I will be going to Hang Gliding School at Jockey's Ridge State Park, something I have wanted to do for years. Maybe I will follow thru on it, maybe it will be like the rapelling attempt, o-well either way it will be there and not here.
Hopefully I will be able to get on line and post pictures.
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I hope you have a great time!
We'll miss you around here! :-*
Brokeback_Dev:
Have lots of fun Bud. Be careful!
Hey Tru, I saw you in my dream last night. It was so real. Im glad I got to know you a little my friend. ;)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: shakestheground on July 18, 2008, 08:14:34 am ---Monday morning I will be going to Hang Gliding School at Jockey's Ridge State Park, something I have wanted to do for years. Maybe I will follow thru on it, maybe it will be like the rapelling attempt, o-well either way it will be there and not here.
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:o
I'll stick to horses. If I'm gonna break my neck and get killed, I'd rather it be that way. When we went riding on the Roundup, and Casper started trotting on that 45-degree downslope, I just told myself there are worse ways to die than falling off a horse and breaking your neck in the Absarokas of Wyoming. ;D
Brokeback_Dev:
Yeah, i was waiting to see DK and believe or not in my dream you were working at Starbucks! :laugh: :laugh:
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