Most things which have a right and a wrong way up, if you think about it. 

Though I suppose that “right” and “wrong” can usually be construed as points of view.

Ever since I can remember, I’ve loved to flip things upside down.

And I need to see these things. I don’t want to read about them in a book. I’m very “hands-on”.

Though Holding a candle upside down is something I would never recommend. Ouch!

My country’s flag, the Union Jack, has a right way up, but so few people seem to notice or care that it’s said to be hung upside down roughly half of the time, though it’s a different case with the U.S. stars and stripes. 

Some Picasso Paintings somehow look a little less strange, the wrong way around. But Jackson Pollock’s paintings are just as much utter garbage.

Turning a person upside down can be dangerous, or even deadly, as blood pools to the head, so customized are our blood vessels to ensure that blood doesn’t drain down and accrue within our feet.

When blood drips down into our brain, many problems can arise, including ruptured blood vessels leading to brain haemorrhage.

Also, our lungs are designed to sit atop our heavier organs. It’s the way we evolved. The lungs can slowly become crushed beneath our hearts and our kidneys and liver.

As a kid, I used to sit and watch T.V. upside down on the couch, my little legs stretched up over the backrests, my hair splayed across the carpet. My mom would yell and tell me to stop or I’d pass out, but then as soon as she’d left the room, I’d resume my usual position.

I loved the buzz of walking on my hands, and hanging from the jungle gym like a bat. 

When I got a little older and started to learn more about biology, you can imagine the sweet satisfaction I felt upon learning that being upside down for short stints of time can even confer some pretty compelling health benefits. 

Scientific studies show that, with practice, “brief inverted poses” can lower your resting heart rate, increase endurance and help your body use oxygen more efficiently during exercise. 

I felt like waving this information in my mom’s face.

I started standing on my head, for at least half an hour every day.

The most time I’d ever spent upside down before today was seventeen hours. I fainted, eventually, and woke up in a heap, feeling somewhere between this world and whatever lies beyond. 

I remembered always being afraid, before. I awoke feeling freedom, hungry and powerful and oddly immortal.

That was yesterday. Or last week, or last year, or maybe it never happened at all. I can’t see anything anymore. Eventually you go blind. I definitely remember yanking the steering wheel, then flipping, over-and-over, down a big bumpy cliff until my Uber driver stopped screaming and my pain stopped completely.

Cars definitely have a right way up.