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Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance Janet Kuypers 4/23/19, written on National Take a Chance Day,/font> “Honey I’m still free, take a chance on me” 1977 song, ABBA I recently heard that Mark Twain said, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” # Once, after I had money saved and sufficiently hated my job, I quit — and traveled around the country by car, driving eight hours a day to visit old friends and new cities, so I could otherwise try to get out of my comfort zone. Months later I got the chance to fly an airplane, and I thought, ‘I’ve never done that before, so... why not,’ and off I went. Later I looked at the ravages of time and wondered what I was waiting for, when I talked about jumping out of an airplane years ago. So I went to Longmont, so I could have a good view of the Tetons when I jumped from seventeen thousand feet above sea level. ...I was never scared, I’d be fine, and what’s the point of fear anyway. More recently, while snorkeling, I saw in the distance what looked like a white-tipped shark, sleeping along the bottom of the ocean. I had no scuba gear, but where I was it wasn’t deep, I promised I wouldn’t get too close, and as I swam I saw at least twenty-four, maybe thirty of these sharks, all peacefully sleeping, in a perfect row. In fact, today was my scheduled day to purchase an electric hybrid American car. ...And come to think of it, I heard about a man who wore a stainless steel woven metal suit, where he could then literally conduct two hundred-thousand volts from a Tesla coil to what looked like right through him. There’s a video of this man in his metal suit, conducting electricity from this Tesla coil to his outstretched arm, along his body and through the wooden stool he stood on, then finally into the ground. After this, I keep thinking that there’s a certain electricity in the air. And I have to wonder, if we wear the same size and I could fit into that suit to move some electricity myself. # Because maybe it’s true, maybe you’ll be disappointed by the things you didn’t do versus the things you do. So... honey, I’m still free. So take a chance, like me. |
