I went sky diving!! To some this may seem crazy, others may want to do it,
and then those who have already gone. For me it wasn’t completely what I
expected it to be…
So when you think about jumping out
of a plane, your adrenaline is pumping, you have no idea what is going to
happen, and you hope that your parachute is going to open on the way down. Once
you are strapped in and on your way up, you don’t really have a choice, you are
jumping out of the plane. There were many stories we heard on the way up of
people peeing, passing out and coming to during the fall, throwing up, you name it it has
probably happened to a few of the instructors. One lady was going with her
daughter for her birthday. The instructor was asked, “Are you ready?” She replied,
“No”. In the end you have made the decision to jump, if you want to
go or not the person you are strapped to is going to jump out of the plane and you are going with them. For me that is the easy part, it would be much
harder for me to jump on my own, but this way I was able to just enjoy the ride and not think about it. Which thinking about it there are times in life that we desire to do something and just need
a little extra push to help get us out the door.
So we are out of the door, I thought
I was going to scream the whole way but it was like I was overwhelmed by how
peaceful it was. I wanted to free fall forever, literally that couldn’t happen
because I would eventually hit ground, but it didn’t feel like the ground was getting closer. My stomach didn’t drop and I didn’t feel
like I was falling. I would look out and see as far as I could see if I was in a plane, and there were no walls or small windows to block the view. My arms open wide, surrounded by the wind rushing by and
through me. I was seeing and experiencing life in a completely different perspective than I had
ever seen it before. I was feeling something that I had never felt before. I felt free.
Yes, I jumped out of a plane for the
trill that it was going to bring, and I am sure that trill will be there every time, now I want to go back for the peace that I felt while I was up there.
Then I recently after jumping I
watched this video, “More than a feeling�, and I can’t stop watching it. What
if I could do this whenever I wanted? Escape and see the beauty that I am
surrounded by. It is seeing the earth from a different perspective
and embrace the place that we live in a whole new way. The way there is a sense
of freedom and they are playing in it. Watching how they fly next the mountains and realizing how small I
really am. This video just brings me a lot of wonder about things that I may overlook everyday and don’t things I don’t even think about,
maybe it will for you too.
