MOUNT EVEREST
by
Anthonystjoseph
You know, I am completely dumfounded by
people and persons who want to climb Mount Everest. The world has so many other joys then
tempting death! If your life is so
boring that you feel the need to climb a rock then I definitely want you to
read this to understand that climbing the mountain of humanity and seeing the
beauty of the world and all it has to offer is much more rewarding than
climbing a ROCK!
I have traveled and traversed so much of
this planet and seen more of humanity and it’s creations then most and that is
what I call climbing Mount Everest; the Mount
Everest of humanity! I have stayed
in the Siag Hotel in Egypt and visited the large and famous three pyramids of Giza
and the Sphinx and even went up into the tomb of one of these famous pyramids
in Giza. The tomb itself was very small
and the inner tunnel to it was so small I had to hunch to walk through it; the actual
tomb seemed to be smaller than my living room.
I went to the National museum in Alexandria, Egypt and looked down upon
the Sarcophagus of King Tut which was only three feet from my face and was
brought to complete tears at the history that lay before me. This was the Gold Sarcophagus and not the
inner ones that tour the United States.
I have met what we refer to as Celebrities
my entire life. I have had Cicely Tyson
pick me out from behind a crowd who was besieging her and look directly into my
eyes and blow me a kiss. I have talked
to Chaka Khan; Lieutenant Uhuru from Star Trek grabbed my face with both hands
and told me that it was “going to be alright…”
I’ve even spoken to the legendary Diana Ross for a fleeting moment. The famous stylist Jose Eber stopped dead in
his tracks when I was a young beauty in Hollywood and told his whole posse
while staring at me in disbelief; “How beautiful!” Yes, I have climbed my own Mount Everest in
life and I didn’t have to face an inane and senseless death to do it.
That’s not to say that I haven’t faced death. I have stared a gang leader in the eye who
had a full and completely premeditated desire to kill me and told him straight
to his face; “The only thing you can do to me is send me to Heaven!” This gang leader ended up walking away,
cowered from my steadfast resolve as all of his three hundred gang members
walked away with him. All of this is in
my memoirs.
Apart from Africa, I have even traveled to
parts of my maternal ancestral home which is Germany. I am also proud to say that I have landed on
the ice rock known as Antarctica in the middle of the night and felt like I was
in a Steven Spielberg movie as the snow tossed through the icy environment as
if it itself was being directed by God and knew we were visiting.
This would all come as a surprise to a
recent friend of mine named Hayden who said, “All you do is stay at home! You’re a homebody!” I had built a home that was like a dream to
me; I had put in a beautiful bronze full color oxide tile and granite wherever
it suited me. I had a complete wall of
sixteen foot high windows with cathedral ceilings throughout the entire top
floor. I had a fireplace pit room that
you could walk into and sit on a carpeted bench that surrounded the fireplace. I had a four and a half foot tall brass
statue of the Goddess Lakshmi that I had purchased at the Gem and Mineral show
in Tucson, Arizona that was stunning! I
had done the world… When I met Hayden, I
had seen so much. I needed rest! Eventually I hit the road and a life called
traveling once again.
But at this point in my life; all I am
looking for is love. The final
frontier. Love was all I ever sought and
all I ever needed and it is that love that has eluded me most.
So if you want to tempt death and play
Russian Roulette with a loaded gun with more than one bullet than just go ahead
and literally climb the most dangerous ROCK
on Earth called Mount Everest and play that
game; it’s your life and your choice. But I suggest to you that you have not
climbed the rock of life for then you
would not need the stimulus of tempting an idiotic fate. Some mountains are like a flame; they are
meant to be looked at and nothing else.
But life is a rainbow and I cannot choose your color for you but I will
offer my advice; always. And I can
proudly say, “I have placed my flag
in many hearts.”
By
Anthonystjoseph
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