Many of you may recall the debates raging over the past few weeks in regards to Al Gore shedding light on problems with the planet. Personally, I’m on his side, and I see no reason why humanity shouldn’t start taking better care of the place they live before it’s too late. Seems common sense to me.
This morning however, the problem became personal in a near serious manner. While embarking on one of my early morning walks I take for exercise every morn, disaster nearly struck. As I trekked down the street in the dark, I glanced ahead and noticed a wet patch on the street where water had flowed down from an alley. The thought entered and then left my mind in the same second, as it’s hardly a strange sight to see. I walk over it and suddenly my ass is up in the air, and after a second or so of me pondering this odd turn of events in my life I crash to the pavement. The sound that accompanies my bump on my elbow is the same you might hear when a baseball is hit by a bat. That nice clean crack sound. I get up and immediately go about my business because cars suddenly appear driving down the street and I hate to be that guy that just slipped on ice and fell on his ass that everyone laughs at on the way to their work. Luckily, the mishap wasn’t spotted and after the cars were gone I started testing my elbow out. Full range of motion despite that crack sound, and hours later it feels mostly fine outside outside of the bad scrape in the skin. So I’m either suffering from some bone chips that I’m not feeling right now, or I truly am invincible to injury as I’ve always thought. Seriously, I’ve never suffered a broken bone or fracture in my life, despite being in one head on car wreck in my life that totaled both cars as well as being involved in a number of comical falls. I haven’t even been sick in years.
But the real culprit of this attempt on my life needs a spotlight shone on her immediately. Mother Nature. I hear you laughing, and I sincerely hope that you don’t bust a gut or anything as I’d much rather you make the mistake of stepping in front of a moving car sometime soon. You can flip off. You’re probably the one destroying the planet all by yourself, because I have no doubt in my mind that you are cruel. Painfully cruel. I can only hope that one day you yourself experience pain the likes I which I could’ve suffered this morning. Your attempt to silence me will not stop me, because I can not be moved. Outside of being put on the ground that is, but that’s simply because you took the low road and surprised me like a ninja rather than face me upfront.
Karma is indeed a bitch Mother Nature, and I hope she is a vengeful mistress when your time comes.
