000094 #human
"I'm not ready," she protests. But you gotta do it anyhow. When you're poised on the gravel bar in front of the swimming hole and you know it's going to be colder'n hell, and you say okay i'm just about ready i'll jump when i'm ready it's gonna be cold and i'm so dry and warm right now in the sun and okay how about just in a second here, i'll get ready and then i'll go just one more second, okay my feet are planted i'm in the position to jump and it's just a matter of swing the arms up and over we'll go right thru the air and into the pool and it'll make a big splash, right in a second here okay here goes, right, okay--but you will never be ready. no matter how much preparing you do, it is never going to change the fact that the water's cold and it's going to be a shock. So one of those times you just jump anyway even though you're not ready. And you come up screaming and whoopin, and you feel awake, and wet.