Immortality - hmmm. That's probably not spelt right, but hey - I've a lifetime to perfect it.
I touched on the subject of my immortal soul in my last post. So let's examine this shall we. What makes me think I am immortal?
Well it's like this. I cannot remember a time when I didn't exist, therefore logically I have always existed. Other, older people (and we know what their memories are like don't we?) say they CAN remember a time when I didn't exist. They allege that they saw me born, or growing up or whatever. But THEY are mere mortals, so can we trust them? For all I know I imagined them all.
Of course, the true test of immortality is can you be killed? Well, this is possibly tempting fate, but I am begginning to have my doubts. A brief catalouge of my near death expereiencesl;
1971 - fall from a second storey window - outcome - a chipped tooth.
1972 - electrocuted whilst plugging in a toy train set. No effect.
1973 - electrocuted whilst plugging in a toy train set. No effect. Although by now I was going off the train set.
1980 - cycle accident into parked car whilst reading newspaper whilst cycling- no injury. Sunday supplement torn.
1982 - head on cycle accident. No injury.
1986 - throttle jams wide open on motorcycle - no injury. Bike a write off.
1987 - narrow miss with coach in single track Scottish Mountain road - I swear my two nearside wheels were over fresh air as we went around the bend to miss the coach coming the other way in the dark.
1989 - car into ditch - no injury - reversed out, and completed journey!
1992 - head on collision with stolen car - slight disorientation, mild concussion.
1993 - Minor smoke inhalation in fire rescue. 2 others died, I survived.
1994 - electrocuted again whilst decorating friends flat. Of course I'm getting used to it by now.
1995 - Collision with bus which pulls out at junction into path of my speeding patrol car. No injury.
1995 - shot in knee. That hurt a bit.
1997 - Got married (okay that doesn't really count, but it hurt me terribly financially and has done ever since)
2002 - Broken ribs, twice, in fights with violent people.
2005- fell down cliff whilst on active coastguard rescue duty. Mild bruising to both thighs.
2009 - Almost drowned in sink hole in Dent Dale Valley.
This is just a breif sunnary of the things I can remember, I'm sure there are many more. Like the time I avoided hypothermia whilst sleeping drunk in a hedge oustide a mates house.
I now feel it is quite reasonable to wallpaper around a socket without necessarily removing the fuse from the system or switching off the supply. I know a man who changes household radiators without draining the heating system down first, but that's just silly - you're going to get wet, but not dead.
Any how the uopshot is, I am (possibly) immortal (so far) and unless fate happens to be watching and decides to make an example of me I shall remain immortal until the day I die.
Sunday, 27 September 2009
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