opalbeauty: between never feeling pain, skydiving from a plane or dancing in the rain, which would you choose and why?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, feeling pain, while not pleasent, reminds us we are alive (where there is pain, there is life) and since I have danced in the rain, and enjoyed it very much, I would have to choose the skydiving since I have never tried it, (but only if I could do a "tandem" jump).
I would not want to stop feeling emotional pain because if all we felt was happiness all the time we couldn't appreciate the happiness. Life would not be the same without pain, I believe we grow more from pain, we learn what hurts. As Scottishlass said it reminds us we're alive.
I will be honest, skydiving from a plane is not on my top 500 list. I believe it would be a lot of fear to face at once. I would have to be thrown off the plane so I don't know if I could actually do that. We have fear to keep us safe and we have imaginary fears that we have built in our own minds, many are due to hurts and wounds. Fear as well as pain motivates me to always seek self-improvement. I believe I will always be facing into my fears and growing. If skydiving was a goal I really wanted to achieve, I would have to learn how to do it safely. Maybe I would start by taking horseback riding first. I'm not sure how that would help with skydiving but it is something I would like to do....be able to ride a horse fast and free and feel safe and as if I had mastered my fear.
I would choose dancing in the rain because I'm alive. I can feel. I can choose. I can dream. I can face my fears.
Remember, to love is to live.
"Well, by the time you see this, I won't be here anymore, and I know how much that sucks, for both of us. So seeing as how I won't be around to thoroughly annoy you, I thought I would give you a little list of the things that I wish for you. Well, there's the obvious. An education. Family. Friends. And a life that is full of the unexpected. Be sure to make mistakes. Make a lot of them, because there's no better way to learn and to grow. And, I want you to spend a lot of time at the ocean, because the ocean forces you to dream, and I insist that you be a dreamer. God. I've never really believed in god. In fact, I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to disprove that god exists. But I hope that you are able to believe in god, because the thing that I've come to realize, is that it just doesn't matter if god exists or not. The important thing is for you to believe in something, because I promise you that that belief will keep you warm at night, and I want you to feel safe always. And then there's love. I want you to love to the tips of your fingers, and when you find that love, wherever you find it, whoever you choose, don't run away from it. But you don't have to chase after it either. You just be patient, and it'll come to you. Don't be afraid. And remember, to love is to live."
I think dancing in the rain would promote the most pure of both worlds. The pain is gone and the rain drops are sky diving onto your face. XP
Anyway, I think I would choose the Dancing in the rain because it tends to be the most calming experience. The water flowing over your skin, the general wetness cleansing your body and the hearing of the water droplets hitting the ground drowning out the sounds of the discomfort in the ongoing pattern of life.
I have had my fill of emotional pain as well as physical, I am stuck going skydiving in Aug, can't get out and am thinking more pain! lol. Dancing in the rain, sounds corny but fun! I will go with that!
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