Am I Awesome? Or just plain Stupid?

Free falling through the air, like a baby bird first learning to fly. Only I have no wings, no means of flight.

At this I think to myself, am I awesome? Or just plain stupid?

Adrenalin rushes through my veins like white water rapids gushing down a river. Ideas fly through my mind faster than I can fathom. Everything is a blur.

The air rushes past my face at 160 miles per hour as I fall steadily faster towards the rocks and Earth below me. The moisture in the air pelts my face like tiny rocks. A reminder of what is about to come.

Again I wonder to myself, what has lead me to do this? My life has always been about pushing boundaries. Never in my life have I let fear rule my actions. Injury and pain are common consequences of my actions, but they are always hidden behind my addiction to pursuing the extreme.

I fall faster and faster. My body feels like it is being crushed by the nothingness in the air. I have now been in free fall only a few seconds and yet everything seems to be going in slow motion.

I suddenly lose focus of what is going on around me and am once again lost in thought. For some odd reason, one that I cannot explain, all I can think about is what I want to eat. A milkshake. A Five Guys cheeseburger. A chocolate hostess ho-ho. It’s odd how your mind works when the possibility of death is in the near future.

Mountains can be clearly been seen in the distance. The sky is clear and the sun is shining bright. I have no doubt fallen a few thousand feet by now. My heart pounds with the force of a jack-hammer.

I am in a battle between mind and body. Ideas flood my brain faster than they ever have before. My insides feel as though a bomb has been stuffed inside and it is about to explode at any moment. It is only a matter of them before it is all over. In a split second everything that was and is that I have ever known will return as it once was.

Then, like a stampede of elephants it hits me. Crushing every part of my body in an instant. I fly upward even faster.

The parachute was pulled. My mind calmed and as I floated back down gently to the ground. It was over and my body relaxed.

I can’t wait to do it again.