L'aura del Campo

No thrills ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ... for me

No thrills ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ... for me

We’re taking a trip today to the southern most point in the entire United States. South Point on the Big Island of Hawaii is a popular daredevil destination where brave souls leap from the cliff into the churning ocean below.

Are you (or were you ever) a thrill-seeker? Do you visit carnivals or theme parks? What do you do that gets your heart pounding? Have you ever had a brush with death?

No. No. Hmm. Yes.

No. I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not into carnivals and I seldom have visited theme parks. Scrambling up the side of a crumbling shale gulch (or sliding down between trees) is as close as I got when much younger. I don't like water; don't swim. I have bad vertigo, so edges bother me to the point I go stiff. Heights? Don't ask. Roller-coasters make me sick.

Most any threat gets my heart pounding. So does running to catch a train. I don't seek out these moments.

Does having a gun at my head count? Or so he said... I called his bluff.

Illness I guess counts as a brush with death, so does crossing the street here. I don't seek these moments out either.

In conclusion: bungee jumping, sky diving, car racing... you-know, things that regularly kill people... is not for me.

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