I take risks
I take really stupid risks
I take risks based on my ego and I admit and accept I'm arrogant.
Me and Kenn went to Peel yesterday for a Ice Cream. We drove down and laughed and joked and got to Peel and grabbed a Ice Cream and started walking along and eating it on the small beach just to the side of Peel castle. Peel castle is surrounded by vertical cliff faces on 3 sides.
While walking with Kenn on the beach and eating Ice Cream I looked at a part of the cliff face and said "I think I can climb that". I gave my Ice Cream to Kenn and climbed halfway up then couldn't find a next hand or foot hold. Kenn called up saying your Ice Cream is melting so I came down and finished it.
We kept walking on the beach and I just kept looking at the cliff face thinking I can do that. It pissed me off that I couldn't do it. I finished the ice cream and said "I'm going to try again".
I climbed up the cliff face and got to the same place again. I saw a hand hold and tested it and lifted my foot up finding the next foot hold. it was slightly higher than comfortable and I had to reach. I pulled myself up using my hand balancing on my foot. I couldn't find a next hand hold though and only hand enough room for 1 foot on the foot hold.
I was stuck like that for about 3 minutes but it felt like forever. At this point I'm about 20 25 feet up and above sharp jagged rocks. Kenn is going "your stuck mate you can't get down without cutting yourself badly and there are no hand or foot holds above you". People were watching from all over the beach and looking up and pointing at me.
I couldn't go down because it meant scraping my body against jagged rocks and cutting myself to shit. I saw a hand hold after looking around but it was just out of reach. To get to it I would need to let go and let myself fall right for a second before I could get hold of it. But there was a easy foothold that I could swing my foot onto when I got hold of the new hand hold.
I lifted my hand off and started swinging right for the hand hold. All i could hear was screaming from people watching and Kenn going "oh shit". I caught the hand hold and lifted myself up swinging my body to latch my right foot on to the foot hold. After that the climb was easy and I made it to the top and started walking down the path leading back to the beach. I walked past about 3 people running up to see me and smiled saying "knew I could do it". Got to Kenn and he laughed and said "Well you did it"
I had such a sense of euphoria and happiness that I didn't stop smiling for hours afterwards.
I take really stupid risks
I take risks based on my ego and I admit and accept I'm arrogant.
Me and Kenn went to Peel yesterday for a Ice Cream. We drove down and laughed and joked and got to Peel and grabbed a Ice Cream and started walking along and eating it on the small beach just to the side of Peel castle. Peel castle is surrounded by vertical cliff faces on 3 sides.
While walking with Kenn on the beach and eating Ice Cream I looked at a part of the cliff face and said "I think I can climb that". I gave my Ice Cream to Kenn and climbed halfway up then couldn't find a next hand or foot hold. Kenn called up saying your Ice Cream is melting so I came down and finished it.
We kept walking on the beach and I just kept looking at the cliff face thinking I can do that. It pissed me off that I couldn't do it. I finished the ice cream and said "I'm going to try again".
I climbed up the cliff face and got to the same place again. I saw a hand hold and tested it and lifted my foot up finding the next foot hold. it was slightly higher than comfortable and I had to reach. I pulled myself up using my hand balancing on my foot. I couldn't find a next hand hold though and only hand enough room for 1 foot on the foot hold.
I was stuck like that for about 3 minutes but it felt like forever. At this point I'm about 20 25 feet up and above sharp jagged rocks. Kenn is going "your stuck mate you can't get down without cutting yourself badly and there are no hand or foot holds above you". People were watching from all over the beach and looking up and pointing at me.
I couldn't go down because it meant scraping my body against jagged rocks and cutting myself to shit. I saw a hand hold after looking around but it was just out of reach. To get to it I would need to let go and let myself fall right for a second before I could get hold of it. But there was a easy foothold that I could swing my foot onto when I got hold of the new hand hold.
I lifted my hand off and started swinging right for the hand hold. All i could hear was screaming from people watching and Kenn going "oh shit". I caught the hand hold and lifted myself up swinging my body to latch my right foot on to the foot hold. After that the climb was easy and I made it to the top and started walking down the path leading back to the beach. I walked past about 3 people running up to see me and smiled saying "knew I could do it". Got to Kenn and he laughed and said "Well you did it"
I had such a sense of euphoria and happiness that I didn't stop smiling for hours afterwards.
phoenixgirl:
I can't believe you did that!! 