Fat, Fifty, Freezing... and Now Wet

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If you have a fear of death and are unsure what life means, take a step back from yourself and embark on an adventure—any adventure, as long as it’s different. Break out of your mould.

You probably won’t find peace or answers, but you will have a great time for a short while.

It all started when my good friend Alan Boyce told me he was in the ‘departure lounge of life’. He was 48 I think at the time. I was 46. Well, if he’s in the departure lounge, I’m at least in the taxi on the way there, I thought. I looked back into the not-so-distant past and clearly saw the moment the driver had come to pick me up. He had opened the door, and I had got in. No grumbles, no protests from me. Off we had set.

I had been cruising through life for a long time, resigning myself to the routine: work, drink, eat, smoke, repeat. The realisation that my trip to the departure lounge had already started came as a shock. I wasn’t ready yet. And I still had a number of other adventurous trips to complete before embarking on the final one.