My brother works for ITN, I blame him. That's when it hit me for the first time. It was a Sunday evening and I had popped in to see him at work. Any of you familiar with ITN's head office on Grey's Inn Road will be familiar with the multi-floor atrium that falls through the middle of it.
There we were doing the obligatory tour of the building and up we went to the top floor, the highest point, furthest from the ground and the the platform for the longest drop. That's when it crept up on me. As I stood there at the edge of the balcony a little thought worked its way into my head "Ben, there's nobody about, you could easily climb over that balcony.....so what's stopping you?" and since that day that thought has remained with me.
The point is that I realised I could if I wanted to, nothing was stoppjng me....of course I didn't do it, I certainly wouldn't be writing this, but I did realise that I could if I wanted to. So for years I kept that to myself, understandably I thought it made me a bit weird (strangely the story comes back to Grey's Inn Road but more of that later) but from that day I always wanted to see if I would or could do it!
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