On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:52, JoeHill wrote: > On 20 Jun 2003 18:39:20 -0400 > ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > When you spend all that time and energy swimming upstream > > Who says I'm swimmin upstream?
well if "downstream" is the way most everyone else is going, and you say; "Now I'm glad I was treated as an outcast in school, I wouldn't want to be those "normal" people for anything in the world." normal folks, go with (and are) the flow, you, against the flow (swimming upstream). I have a story about that. As a teenager, (having spent most my life in the Fla.Keys) I, and most all my friends were excellent swimmers, and water polo was the game most often played. We also liked to play "tag" on a bridge with a "catwalk" (a walkway for fishing) that had a strong current running under, that got stronger as you got closer to the middle of the channel. We would run out the cat walk and jump in when "it" got close, and swim back to shore fighting the current. one day when I was about 14, we had spent the afternoon playing tag, and after we left, some tourist had tried to swim back in from where we were jumping in and swimming. needless to say, he got his name in the paper, and his wife was quoted as saying he just jumped in where these kids had been jumping in, but the current must have gotten worse since it carried him right out to sea. I decided that night, that just because _I_ like to swim upstream, does not mean I should let others see me swim upstream and think that they can do it too, so we never played tag during the daylight hours like that again, at least at that bridge.
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