Since three of my original list of ten facts, one lie haven’t had any love, I can’t announce a winner yet (so you might still have a chance). But here’s a bonus selection. After I compiled my list of possibly interesting truths, I found there were 12. So two of them didn’t make the cut.
I emailed my BFF, who isn’t on Steemit, and asked which two were least interesting / uncommon. She picked this one.
I still have all four wisdom teeth
When I was about 18, my dentist told me that my wisdom teeth were all growing in sideways, and they would cause problems if they didn’t come out. I didn’t have any money, so I metaphorically stuck my fingers in my ears and went “La La La”.
Over 40 years later, I still have them all, and haven’t noticed any problems.
The other one she thought might be a bit too common was…
I’ve bungy jumped
After having a bit of a conversation with @rebeccabe, I’m now thinking the entire story behind this might be of interest to one or two of you.
So, back in the 90s, I did quite a few personal development courses in the Turning Point series (a bit like Landmark Forum.) These are directly responsible for two of my other true stories, which you’ll get to hear later in the week.
One was a week long residential course called Breakthrough. One of the things we had to do was get up and go for a run every morning, which was not something I was accustomed to, and the hill work never got easier! Then shower, then meditation, and finally we could eat breakfast! But I digress…
On this particular day, we were taken in buses to an adventure / assault course type place. I can’t remember everything we had to do, but I distinctly remember some. The first for my group involved clambering up a climbing wall on the side of a tower. Then flinging ourselves off the top onto a pile of padded mattressy type things. I didn’t have enough upper body strength to pull myself all the way up and eventually they just dragged me up by the harness.
But I still had to get down. Even though, as long as my technique was correct, I wasn’t going to be hurt, I couldn’t fling myself off. I went into utter panic mode and started screaming. After I wore myself out screaming, I just had to do it, as we were out of time and were going to be penalised if I didn’t.
Everything else was easy after that. Abseiling was up next. Pfft, simple, I’m wearing a harness, aren’t I? No problems.
The last activity for our group involved walking along a tightrope thing, holding onto ropes each side. We then got onto a narrow walkway, where the staff harnessed us up and told us to bungy off. Again, there was no other way down. But at least it was feet first. So I just shuffled forward bit by bit and eventually stepped off. I didn’t like it, and felt a bit sick, but it was done. I would tick it off my bucket list, except it was never on it.
If you had visions of me diving head first over a river, sorry to disappoint. That ain’t ever going to happen!
I walked on hot coals
This is a complete lie, and I might have used this as my lie if I’d remembered earlier.
This happened towards the end of Breakthrough. Nearly everybody else did it. I think only one other person didn’t and she had done it another time.
I knew I didn’t have the right mindset for it that night. Shaking and crying with terror are kind of the antithesis of commitment, focus and confidence. But although I knew I’d made the right decision for me, it still felt pretty bad when everybody else was walking on air from having done it. That is, apart from those who did it and did actually burn their feet. They weren’t walking at all…
Thanks for reading
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