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re: What's the closest you've ever felt to complete freedom
Posted on 8/6/24 at 3:11 pm to Corinthians420
Posted on 8/6/24 at 3:11 pm to Corinthians420
177 before the first turn at VIR.
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Posted on 8/6/24 at 3:15 pm to Corinthians420
Anytime I'm surfing waiting for the next swell and there's no one else in the water.
Posted on 8/6/24 at 3:30 pm to Corinthians420
My summer after my Sophomore year at LSU and right before my Senior year. Wake up, go to Brew Bachers or George's for lunch. Go home take a nap go to work at Sport'son Tues, Thurs, Friday and Sat. nights. Sometimes go straight from Sport's get in the car and head to Orange Bch ( nothing there in the late 80s) chill at a friend's condo until Monday afternoon go back and do it all over again with the next weekend at a camp on False River. Wednesdays were pool days.
Literally nothing else. No school, rarely went to Mom and Dad's. Just work, girls, booze and sun and fun. Made a lot of money since on Tuesday and Saturdays I was generally one of two bartenders working and the tips tended to be all mine that I would do a 25% split with the lone barback working. $ 100.00 in a night was like a fortune then
Literally nothing else. No school, rarely went to Mom and Dad's. Just work, girls, booze and sun and fun. Made a lot of money since on Tuesday and Saturdays I was generally one of two bartenders working and the tips tended to be all mine that I would do a 25% split with the lone barback working. $ 100.00 in a night was like a fortune then
This post was edited on 8/6/24 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 8/6/24 at 3:37 pm to AZBadgerFan
One of my area solos in a T-37. Nothing but puffy clouds and a few towering cumulus. Did as many aileron rolls as the jet would do, split S's thru cloud decks, loops, barrel rolls, and just flying thru the clouds like they were a canyon. If someone was listening to me thru the intercom, they'd be laughing their arse off, because I was hooting and laughing the whole time.
That plane was a ton of fun. I pay big $ to solo it one more time.
That plane was a ton of fun. I pay big $ to solo it one more time.
Posted on 8/6/24 at 3:48 pm to AwgustaDawg
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... It is entirely possible to be about as free as anyone has ever been right here in the USA if you are willing to sleep under a bridge....the freest among us is the bum without a care in the world except where to find a meal, a fix and somewhere to sleep....and the streets are awash with opportunity for all three....
Having to worry about people stealing what little stuff you have or beating you up, or the cops occasionally running you out of your luxurious accommodations, doesn't sound like my version of freedom.
Posted on 8/6/24 at 4:10 pm to Corinthians420
The day my divorce was officially complete. I got back to my home (which I grew up in and bought from my parents) that I was forced to leave after our separation. With my 2 dogs the x abandoned during the divorce and tried to give away while I was living in an extended stay hotel. She had completely ransacked everything I owned from the house. Left me 2 chairs and a mattress with no frame laying on the floor in a 3,000sq ft house. Walking in and knowing that even though I had nothing left, I was home, and it was over. With all that negativity, heartache, nastiness, and my past life with her in rearview. Nothing but a clean slate and open road ahead of me. It was truthfully surreal how at peace I was and nothing else really seemed to matter. One of the best days of my life.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 12:01 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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Having to worry about people stealing what little stuff you have or beating you up, or the cops occasionally running you out of your luxurious accommodations, doesn't sound like my version of freedom.
I would posit that most people in this country worry about people stealing their shite whether they have very little shite or lots of shite...most people seem pretty convinced that crime is rampant in the US (it isn't but folks are more comfortable living in fear than knowledge). Many among us are convinced folks are gonna get them any minute and can't leave the house comfortably without arming themselves. There is certainly freedom in living in fear, especially unfounded fear. Cops will roust homeless folks from time to time but it doesn't happen often because there ain't no money in it and cops are, like most folks, lazy and take the path of least resistance until told to do so otherwise. At least the fear of being robbed, beat up or rousted by the cops are real for the homeless, they are free from living with irrational fears of that sort, unlike what appears to be the vast majority of people who suffer from the same fears when there is almost no chance of it happening....
Posted on 8/7/24 at 12:08 pm to Corinthians420
Right after sunrise on an otherwise unoccupied lake, riding across water as smooth as a sheet of glass, throttle wide open and motor trimmed up to skim the best the old POS could. First run ever, in my own boat. Probably wasn't going much more than 35, but that's the freeest I've ever felt. 
This post was edited on 8/7/24 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 8/7/24 at 12:31 pm to mx886
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When I ride a dirt bike
Those few seconds at the line right before the gate drops. It's almost like time stops - and then all hell breaks loose.
It's the biggest adrenaline rush you'll experience in life.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 12:37 pm to touchdownjeebus
Ha me too. Literally, hunting bad guys with your bros who you've trained with for years...nothing comes remotely close. Call me crazy it's OK.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 12:43 pm to Corinthians420
Honestly I think yesterday was the first time in a long time. I had a huge interview for a promotion at work, and while I think it went well, the relief of it being over overwhelmed me.
Ended up taking the 4 year old fishing at a beautiful pond we have access to. I sat there on the swing, had Merle playing on the phone and watched him fish. No other people, no cars, just middle of nowhere in north LA with us, the animals, and the sun setting behind the pines. It was true peace.
Ended up taking the 4 year old fishing at a beautiful pond we have access to. I sat there on the swing, had Merle playing on the phone and watched him fish. No other people, no cars, just middle of nowhere in north LA with us, the animals, and the sun setting behind the pines. It was true peace.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 12:46 pm to Lsu05
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The day my divorce was officially complete. I got back to my home (which I grew up in and bought from my parents) that I was forced to leave after our separation. With my 2 dogs the x abandoned during the divorce and tried to give away while I was living in an extended stay hotel. She had completely ransacked everything I owned from the house. Left me 2 chairs and a mattress with no frame laying on the floor in a 3,000sq ft house. Walking in and knowing that even though I had nothing left, I was home, and it was over. With all that negativity, heartache, nastiness, and my past life with her in rearview. Nothing but a clean slate and open road ahead of me. It was truthfully surreal how at peace I was and nothing else really seemed to matter. One of the best days of my life.
Hell yeah brother.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 12:50 pm to Corinthians420
2 AM on a deserted back road, left thumb on a nitrous button, right hand just yanked the shifter into 4th, turn down flowmasters sound like they are blowing the pavement into pieces, guy in next lane is at your quarter panel but cannot pull any further, and you pass the stripe.
There is no drug, illegal or legal, that can match it.
There is no drug, illegal or legal, that can match it.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 1:04 pm to CleverUserName
When I stepped off the plane in Madrid and had a month ahead of me driving throughout Spain by myself. No hotels booked and no real plans, just a car and my suitcase.
That was like 10 yrs ago so it's been a while.
That was like 10 yrs ago so it's been a while.
Posted on 8/9/24 at 6:58 pm to Corinthians420
It was a good time. Reading, fishing, friends flying in to spend a week or two in the boat.
Posted on 8/9/24 at 7:10 pm to Corinthians420
Trump was elected
Posted on 8/9/24 at 7:11 pm to Corinthians420
I mean how isn't it your first time out at 16 in your car?
Posted on 8/9/24 at 7:14 pm to Corinthians420
I was a free range kid. Childhood was freedom
Posted on 8/9/24 at 7:45 pm to Corinthians420
Floating in an inner tube down a slow moving stream
Posted on 8/9/24 at 8:49 pm to cypresstiger
Sitting 30 feet up a tree before sunup, watching the sun rise, listening to and looking at nothing but the woods. Sometimes I don't even want a deer to show up.
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