We survived!! and what an awesome experience, a total of 10 slides down the valley, about 40m above the ground and the longest slide being about 140m long, I'm not sure who was more scared me or Tania but I think I hid my fear better, I remember silently hoping that someone would chicken out so I could join them hehe...but no-one did and so much the better. It was really exilarating...bring on the Adventure!
And so the time comes for change, and to embrace it is a given, for to not do so equates to a parochial world view akin to a peephole...We are what we live, what we yearn for deep inside and how we strive to make that real. I hold ethics and trust high on my moral outlook but keeping those grounded in reality is sometimes more challenging than I thought. The world has it's own rules it seems, and like I've said before, its easy to give advice, its quite another to test its validity at the point of contact...I'm reminded of a speech by Roosevelt, part of which states the following. " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does ...
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Frank