Apr 26, 2007 23:29
If all of your friends were jumping off a bridge, would you jump too?
Of course not. And before anyone asks, yes I've given it plenty of thought and no, I won't be changing my mind. Why? All right, then I'll tell you why. Because jumping off a bridge, literally, is about the most atrocious thing a person can do. You're diving into water you've never been into before, and for what? To put someone else's mind at ease?
No, I don't think so.
If someone wants to take things into their own hands and pitch over a bridge, then that's their choice. But no matter how much I love someone - a friend or otherwise - I wouldn't be doing anything like that.
Greg would laugh at this one, shake his head and tell me I must have been married for too long if I was thinking this way. But it's the truth. I never considered taking my own life or putting my life into danger for someone else.
Unless, of course, my jumping off a bridge would undo what had happened to his leg. In that case, I'd be the one someone else would have to jump off after.
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