Extreme Sports

I love watching extreme sports.  I am a huge fan.  That doesn't mean I like the kinds that border along the lines of stupidity, where people endanger their lives for pure adrenalin rush.  In my opinion, sports should be about physical fitness, sense of achievement and a spirit of competition, and not merely for getting a 'high'.  For example, I just love parkour.  It is so graceful and so admirable.  Movies like District 13, Casino Royale as well as Prince of Persia only made me love it more.  And I guess that extreme sports should be like this.  They should inspire awe and admiration.  And be based on physical ability.

We have our own extreme sports-woman at home.  I always thought kids would be timid and scared of the unknown. Actually Jenny proves me wrong on both counts.  Jenny sleeps with her parents.  It may not be an ideal arrangement by modern standards but we are doing it like this for the time being.  When we parents get up, and if Jenny is still asleep, we line up pillows along the corner of the bed so that she won't roll over them and fall on the floor.  But once we have gotten up and left the room and once madam opens her eyes and sees the room empty, she goes into silent mode.  She will do her best not to make us aware that she is awake.  Then she starts moving towards the edge of the bed, climbing the wall of pillows and stares into the abyss below, that is the hard floor.  And like any person on the brink of something amazing, she absorbs the challenges and actually takes the plunge!!!  It has been luck and a high level of alertness on our part so far that Jenny hasn't made contact with Terra Firma yet.  But it seems to be only a matter of time.  If she is asleep when we are not, we make trips to the bedroom almost every alternate minute just to ensure she is still asleep...that's how we have foiled her attempts till now!

And this is just the part when she should be sleeping!  The adventures she encounters while crawling and walking are yet to come.  I doubt life will ever be boring or monotonous again...at least not for the time being.