It's not the fall that hurts...

it's when you hit the ground. OK, so I really despise it when people do that. You know, that thing where they start a sentence in the title and finish it as the first line of the body of the post or email or whatever. I just decided that I should try to see it from their points of view, so here it is. I'm giving in and trying it their way. I still don't like it.

Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to say that it really isn't the fall that hurts. The fall is actually quite fun. You get that empty feeling in your stomach as it tries to leap out of your mouth and take a majority of your intestines with it. Of course, it can't fit so you just end up unable to breathe until you get that little devil under control. Falling also gives a nice adrenaline rush. This is most likely because your brain is trying to tell you that you are about to hit the ground, and that part does hurt. Falling can be a lot of fun. I fell through a cloud once. It wasn't all soft and cushiony (I was going to write "cuhsy" here, but I couldn't bring myself to actually use that word.) like clouds seem like they should be. No, it was cold and stinging. Cold because that H₂O is really high up in the air and it's cold up there. Stinging because that same cold factor also has a side-effect; it turns the H₂O into ice. Consider that I was falling through the ice at around 100mph and you might understand what I mean by stinging. Next time it's hailing, get on the freeway and stick your head out the window. Then you can really understand what I mean by stinging.
Ususally, though, falling is fun, and it was that time I fell throught the cloud, too. Hitting the ground will get you every time, unless you have a parachute, then you'll be just fine. Today, I didn't have a parachute. I was supposed to have a spotter, but he happened to be on the wrong side of the railing. If you are confused, please take a minute to download and view the Fall.mpeg (for those of you who don't have DivX 6.0; sorry, but the raw file is 5MB) or Fall.avi (for those of you who DO have DivX 6.0; good job, everyone should always have the newest version of DivX cuz it's free and makes this video only 384KB).

Now that you have some form of a frame of reference, I can conclude this proclamation. I have a couple pictures (higher quality, but taken later) of my head afterwards, but I won't post anything of that graphic nature. If you want to see them, ask. Anyway, my head hurts and I think I'll just go and have a little lie down for a while.