Little Games

I like to do little mind games with parts of me.

I'm riding on a people mover - and I am playing with the sense of moving forward without my effort.

And I am doing it with my eyes tightly shut.

Well, I'm attempting to do it with my tightly eyes shut.

I'm challenging my self.

My challenge is to open them at the very last second - just before the end of the walkway so that I can make a graceful stride off of the people mover rather than gracelessly tumbling off.

And, I have to admit it, I'm hoping to look impressive to my self as I take that confident step forward, eyes fluttering open at just the right moment

imminent disaster averted.

And - I'm hoping to do my victory dance -

Celebrating a Challenge Well Met!

Only - my eyes do not trust my instincts of timing. They do not understand or know this unfamiliar speed we are moving, and they keep peeking, doing their job of protecting me as they keep on the sharp look out for the end of the conveyor belt.

And it seems a ridiculously long way off.

So I close my eyes again, and I wait, and then I get scared all too soon, my eyelids flying open!

and the end of the automatic walkway still seems far away.

My are eyes begging me, "Please stop this, you nitwit! You're going to get hurt!"

And the more I try, the more I find that I am at war with my eyelids, as I keep trying to to screw them completely shut while they are forcing themselves open.

Challenge Not Met - Victory Dance on hold for another day.

Does anyone else do these sorts of things?