Everybody has one of those days where they feel
that they are invulnerable. Those
are the days were
you need excitement and you donÆt care where you get it. The thought
of dying or
getting seriously hurt never crosses your mind.
I am going to describe to you
one of those days
I had. It all started with a headache
and extreme boredom.
I woke up on that sunny july morning with a
painful headache. When you wake up
with a headach
you know your going to have a bad day so I popped some aspirin and went
back to
sleep. The annoying ring of the
telephone woke me up about ten oÆclock.
It was
one of my friends
asking if I wanted to spend the day with them.
I said sure and got
dressed. He arrived shortly and we took off for abbot. Come to find out he was having a
impending sense
of boredom just like I was. Both of us
being down in the dumps we
looked for
something exiting and diferent to do. We
took a detour down into a sand pit on
the way to my
friends girlfriends house. Taking turns
doing donuts with his car in the
sand we passed
away about an hour. I needed even more
of a rush so I hoped on top of the
car, held onto
the roof, and told my friend to take off.
After exiting the sand pit we flew off
down the piper pond
road going about 70. My eyes and face
were getting wind burnt so I
tapped on the
wind sheild for him to slow down. After
coming to a stop I told him he had
to try it so
again we sped off but this time he was the one flapping in the wind. When we
pulled into his
girlfriends house he jumped off the car laughing and rubbing his windburnt
face. Still we hadnÆt enough excitement so we
grabbed his girlfriend and headed off
towards barrowÆs
falls. BarrowÆs falls is small river in
back abbot full of little falls and
towering cliff
faces. We parked the car at the begining
of a trail and treaded off down it,
towels in
hand. After walking a little ways
we came to the spot we were looking
for. It
was a huge, deep,
threatening pool at the base of a small waterfall. There was various
small rocks to
jump into the water from but the real behemot was a eighty foot cliff
dominating the
north side of the falls. Aching for more
excitment I climbed to the top.
Looking down from
the top I didnÆt once realize or even think about what could happen if
I landed just
wrong. I knew I had to act before my
courage left me so I steped back, ran,
and leaped from
the top of the cliff. It seemed like an
eternity before I hit the water with
crushing
force. When I barely grazed bottom I
realized how much of a risk I took in
jumping. After a hour or so of swiming around we
headed home and crashed on his living
room floor,
exausted. Not once on this day did I
even think about my personal safety. I
had an overwelming
sense of invulnerability and I used it to turn a normally uneventful
day into an
exciting adventure. Every now and again I get that feeling again and I hook a
sled onto the
back of a car and speed off down a icy road or something as exciting.
Everybody,
exspecialy those that live in Maine, need some times when everything is put
aside and all
that matters is getting that next rush of adrenalin.
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