So, as I was finishing this book by Elizabeth Gilbert it was already well past midnight. And I wanted to watch the movie after reading the book.
Then I was watching and liveblogging on my twitter account. The dawn was near and I decided to go on a bicycle ride so that I could watch the sun rise and meditate a bit. I paused the movie and while I was getting ready to go it suddenly occurred to me that it's been raining for almost a week now and I couldn't possibly see the sun rise as the whole sky would be covered with clouds the colour of Abdel Kerim's beard (it's #cdcdcd folks! I can't believe you didn't know.) But I went there anyways. I took the longest way but it also was more comfortable.
At one point I was passing by stray dogs, there were four or five of them. I hate passing by these dogs because there's this one chance out of 100 that they won't chase you, bark at you loudly and try to bite you by the ankle. As you can guess, this wasn't that one chance. I got really scared and shouted aloud. Out of fear or out of desire to scare the dogs off, I can't really tell. But I guess I have woken up the whole neighbourhood with that. The only thing you can really do to avoid dog bites is speed up and try not to be frightened to stay concentrated.
After that there was one encounter with an amiable plump man. He had this bright orange vest of a railroad worker on and he wore a huge moustache. He smiled at me as he was getting in his car and said: "The best means of transportation". All I had to do was smile and say: "Indeed". And then I thought, maybe it's quite a good morning after all. I had a box of chocolate and my hot-pink nails, right?
Then I had to walk a lot in damp grass because I'm short-sighted and perspective can play tricks on people like me and my light sneakers became all wet from the dew (or the raindrops, I'm not sure). =)
I reached this high towers (I have visited them last year, in September), locked the bike and got up the stairs rather quickly. The towers are almost 20 meters high. At first I just sat there watching the eastern part of the sky but it was not any different from any other part. I had a couple of chocolates and some water and lay back, watching the clouds. That was so boring, I almost fell asleep. After quite a while I was so bored I needed something, anything, to do. I got up and warmed up and stretched up a bit. Then I noticed (oh, wow! where have my eyes been all this time?) this long pipe that is sort of connecting the two towers. I'll show some pics from 2009.
You can also see that there's this narrow staircase landing right under the pipe. So basically, this pipe is about 20 meters high above the ground and there are a lot of metal details right under it. And I had this dumbest idea of walking on the pipe, from one tower to the other. And I did. Halfway across the distance I lost my balance and.. oops. no, I didn't fall all the way down. I clumsily sat on the pipe and held on to it. And I could see the pink plastic bag fly down from the top of the tower, caught in the wind. I carried my chocolate and water in it and now it was gone.
I was so scared again! Scared as I was I tried to cross the distance one more time. Successfully this time. And as I reached the other tower I just grabbed the railings and stood there for a while, with my legs shaking. I collected my belongings and descended the stairs and rode home.
So the results are as follows:
a) my stomach is aching, because basically it's not the very best idea to have chocolate and water for breakfast.
b) my back aches because I didn't have enough clothes on to prevent it from freezing on that rooftop after getting all sweaty after riding.
c) my butt aches. 'Nuff said.
d) I could've stayed in my room with the blinds shut and I would've seen exactly as much of a sunrise as I saw sitting on that rooftop and freezing my butt off.
But all in all, I came to overcoming (no pun intended) some of my fear and that's pretty cool, I guess.
Then I was watching and liveblogging on my twitter account. The dawn was near and I decided to go on a bicycle ride so that I could watch the sun rise and meditate a bit. I paused the movie and while I was getting ready to go it suddenly occurred to me that it's been raining for almost a week now and I couldn't possibly see the sun rise as the whole sky would be covered with clouds the colour of Abdel Kerim's beard (it's #cdcdcd folks! I can't believe you didn't know.) But I went there anyways. I took the longest way but it also was more comfortable.
At one point I was passing by stray dogs, there were four or five of them. I hate passing by these dogs because there's this one chance out of 100 that they won't chase you, bark at you loudly and try to bite you by the ankle. As you can guess, this wasn't that one chance. I got really scared and shouted aloud. Out of fear or out of desire to scare the dogs off, I can't really tell. But I guess I have woken up the whole neighbourhood with that. The only thing you can really do to avoid dog bites is speed up and try not to be frightened to stay concentrated.
After that there was one encounter with an amiable plump man. He had this bright orange vest of a railroad worker on and he wore a huge moustache. He smiled at me as he was getting in his car and said: "The best means of transportation". All I had to do was smile and say: "Indeed". And then I thought, maybe it's quite a good morning after all. I had a box of chocolate and my hot-pink nails, right?
Then I had to walk a lot in damp grass because I'm short-sighted and perspective can play tricks on people like me and my light sneakers became all wet from the dew (or the raindrops, I'm not sure). =)
I reached this high towers (I have visited them last year, in September), locked the bike and got up the stairs rather quickly. The towers are almost 20 meters high. At first I just sat there watching the eastern part of the sky but it was not any different from any other part. I had a couple of chocolates and some water and lay back, watching the clouds. That was so boring, I almost fell asleep. After quite a while I was so bored I needed something, anything, to do. I got up and warmed up and stretched up a bit. Then I noticed (oh, wow! where have my eyes been all this time?) this long pipe that is sort of connecting the two towers. I'll show some pics from 2009.
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| These are the towers and the staircase is between them. You can see the pipe right up there, in the middle. |
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| Here's the pipe as seen from the top of the right-hand tower. |
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| And here's the same pipe as seen from the left-hand tower. |
I was so scared again! Scared as I was I tried to cross the distance one more time. Successfully this time. And as I reached the other tower I just grabbed the railings and stood there for a while, with my legs shaking. I collected my belongings and descended the stairs and rode home.
So the results are as follows:
a) my stomach is aching, because basically it's not the very best idea to have chocolate and water for breakfast.
b) my back aches because I didn't have enough clothes on to prevent it from freezing on that rooftop after getting all sweaty after riding.
c) my butt aches. 'Nuff said.
d) I could've stayed in my room with the blinds shut and I would've seen exactly as much of a sunrise as I saw sitting on that rooftop and freezing my butt off.
But all in all, I came to overcoming (no pun intended) some of my fear and that's pretty cool, I guess.
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