LIFE
The Rubber Band of Life
You can try to escape the ugliness but the elastic will pull you back in
So much of what’s out there on social media is designed to take you out of reality and into fantasy. Content creators make a living cashing in on stories about dares, scares and comedy. Just this morning I was introduced to daredevil explorers who scale cliffs and live precariously in tents off a 4,000 feet sheer cliff face. One of the risk-takers, adventure photographer Gordon Wiltsie, 57, enjoys the thrill that my own stomach twisted itself reading how he describes during a climb “it was the Arctic spring so melting snow on both the summit and a ledge midway up the cliff constantly sent rocks and chunks of ice flying down.”
I did, however, learn a new word: portaledges, meaning hanging tents. It’s a word I’ll remember because I won’t ever need it. I can only wish and pray that Wiltsie and colleagues remain safe till their feet touch the ground, although it doesn’t seem that they’re too keen for that to happen.
The last week or so, the Ambani pre-wedding fiasco was the talk of Asia and spammed social media. Jennifer Lopez’s self-indulgent musical documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told teasers had run its course and it was time for the real talent, ultra rich and vulgar to command cyberspace.
