THAT'S NOT SAFE!

DON'T DO THAT! I'LL FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE

For those of you who frett,

This one’s for you.

When I started surfing, in my late thirties, there were people who actively discouraged me.

They were CONVINCED that I would be dead. I heard a lot of crap like: You have two children at home, this is no time to be doing something as dangerous as SURFING! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

UUUUUUUUUUAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHH!

My favorite?

The ocean is dangerous.

Sigh.

The ocean is dangerous. And with time, patience and learning from mistakes it can become a playground. Ovens are dangerous. Chainsaws. Cars. Falling in love.

All very dangerous.

A full one hunderd percent of all marriages end in either death or divorce.

Merely existing is problematic in and of itself given the fact that one day this existing will cease.

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted. — John Cleese, Life and How to Survive it

But when people say that something is ‘dangerous’, I think they migth be saying Stop it, I’m uncomfortable with what you’re doing.

In other words: Limit …