Eccentric Endeavour

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ECCENTRIC ENDEAVOUR!

Someone has to be the first in any new endeavour.

Some may be simply foolish, and some just very clever.
Someone had to take the risk and be the first to try
Throwing themselves from a pinnacle into an empty sky!

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Base-jumping is a hobby I would never have embraced.
"What! Jump off that there pinnacle! Certainly not my taste!
Free fall and then just parachute? Are you out of your mind!
To be the first to try it it, I'm simply not inclined!"
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Then take the egg, a curious thing, looking like a rock,

Someone had to taste one first and risk an awful shock.

It might have tasted terrible! The taster might have died!

But, somewhere, there was someone who stepped right up and tried.

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If I'd been prehistoric I never would have dared;

Friends could have called me cowardly but I would not have cared!

"What! Eat that thing! It looks so hard and it's full of jelly stuff!

I'm hungry, yes, but look at it! I'm just not brave enough!"

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Many of life's pleasures have been found by those who've 'tried';

But some have been disasters and the trying-types have died!

I'll simply wait here patiently while others do their worst.

I'm a follower, not a leader!

I wont try anything first!

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WHAT IS LIFE?

Life is awareness.

I am sure that

When I cease to be aware

The world will end.

Why should the sun bother to rise

If I am not there to see it?

Why should the world bother to spin

If I am not there for the ride?

The age of the universe will

Exactly match the length of my life.

Because my awareness

Has created it.

And my aware life is eternal.

My mind can only know life;

Therefore I shall know

Life without end.

And if it has no end

It is

Everlasting Life!

Even as I am thinking

'Here comes Death'

I shall be alive.

My brain will not tolerate Death.

And neither will I.

Death is the absence

Of awareness.

If I am unaware,

I am not dead.

I am nothing

In nothing

And of nothing.

There will be nothing of which to be aware.

Because it will have all ended with me.

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You see, I made the whole thing up

In the first place!

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