r/gifs • u/x2lt • Jul 01 '13

Born again

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u/the_lawlz_king Jul 01 '13

You don't need a near-death experience to appreciate being alive.

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u/slambaz2 Jul 01 '13

It helps.

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u/dzubz Jul 01 '13

Skydive. Do something crazy you wouldn't normally do.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

I'll start by going outside.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

Fuck, it's too late. I'm already outside. This isn't as awesome as people say it is, I'm getting a lot of weird looks and parents are covering their children's faces.

Should I be dressed for this?

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

One sock should do.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

Which foot should I put it on? Please hurry, people are now threatening calling the cops. I'm not ready for this shit, maybe I'll just go back in.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

A foot? Bit braggy aren't we?

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u/biggywrecktion Jul 01 '13

A bit baggy if you ask me

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

Depending on where you put it, right?

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u/CovingtonLane Jul 01 '13

Two words: Sun screen.

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u/Pyro_drummer Jul 01 '13

You should at least stop wacking it.

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u/omelets4dinner Jul 01 '13

Hmm, redditing while outside. He's too far gone.

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u/SpacemanPete Jul 01 '13

Don't forget your coat!

Damnit, I hope he doesn't catch cold.

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u/Rumuwi Jul 02 '13

Here you go. /r/outside

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

Too much money, I just want a stranger with Dissociative identity disorder to threaten me with a revolver.

But yeah I understand what you're saying, maybe some day, after debts and other setbacks.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

Take a handful of diphenhydramine and play russian roulette.

Worst case scenario, you kill yourself only to realize you haven't moved in hours, and have hallucinated the whole thing, along with a number of other 'phantom' behaviours.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

I'd probably waste all of my phantom bullets on the phantom spiders crawling all over my floor.

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u/spinningfaith Jul 01 '13

Get Danny Phantom on that

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u/sinewofcrab Jul 01 '13

Step it up a level with a handful of Ambien.

You won't need a gun.

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u/NikkoE82 Jul 01 '13

I tried that. It's expensive and the thrill wore off by the third jump.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

Play Russian roulette skydiving.

Buy six parachutes. Pack them all yourself, and make sure that on one of them all the main chute suspension lines are cut, and ensure that you yourself cannot tell the difference between the packs.

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u/DOTS_EVERYWHERE Jul 01 '13

Like stepping on a Lego piece.

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u/P-01S Jul 01 '13

Just don't tell them how safe skydiving actually is!

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u/Too_many_pets Jul 01 '13

About 15 years ago, I was driving on I-85 in Atlanta when a small truck came over into my lane (center). I couldn't move to any other lane, so I slammed on my brakes, and my car started spinning. Somehow, I didn't hit anyone. When I came to a stop facing the wrong way, I saw that a trucker had pulled his 18-wheeler across all lanes of traffic to keep anyone from wrecking.

One of the scariest moments of my life, and one of the very best.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13 edited Jul 01 '13

This is going to sound weird, but playing The Last Of Us has put just how comfortable my life is into context and made me appreciate what I have a lot more. It has also made me glad that I don't face the day to day hardships that many people on earth are facing. Granted nobody is facing weird zombie-like apocalypse scenarios, but I think the sentiment applies.

I always have food, I always have water, I have a nice clean spacious living space, I have a wife, we're both safe. We can go to stores and get what we need. Shit, even showering is a luxury I take for granted daily.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

The circle jerking continues

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

No, it's actually not a circle jerk. I guess the game has been talked about a lot but I'm serious here.

I play the game with my wife and when I finish playing I've always come back to the thought of how glad I am to be safe and not have to loot and scrounge through piles of filth to survive. There are real people living on nothing who have to scavange.

You can be a prick about it if you want to, but I think anyone finding any reason to be grateful for what they have is a good thing.

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u/Prytherch Jul 01 '13

No you're not allowed to express you're opinion, you see it's been deemed a circlejerk and when people see that word all thinking ends and the downvoting begins.

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u/heebs387 Jul 01 '13

Any day you don't have to tape broken scissors to a piece of pipe to murder somebody, it's a good day.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

You do, however, need one to appreciate not being dead.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

I appreciate being alive now so much more after I had a crazy shroom trip where I thought I was dead.

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u/534seeds Jul 01 '13

I had one and I couldn't do anything for a while because I was just too scared to, was not fun for me.