a friends first jump story

[happythoughts 0]

Sunday night, I was at a birthday party at a friends house. His daughter was telling me about her first/only jump. She did a tandem.

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I just got divorced. Life sucked. I was 25. Midlife crisis mindset. I was thinking "Is this all there is to life?" Terrible self-esteem. I couldn't do anything right.

What the heck? I'll do a skydive.

After that, I felt like I could do anything that I wanted to. Life was no problem. Food tasted better.

I was suddenly so animated about life, energetic and smiling. I met him (pointing to husband) about 2 months later. Life was different.

I never did another one, mainly because of the cost, but I never forgot the first one.

Some people, it is a ho-hum disney ride. For some, it is a change in perspective.

[AggieDave 6]

I've run into students months after doing a jump to hear how it has changed aspects of their lives...it seriously makes you feel good. Its a much better tip then any $20 someone could give me.

Its awsome to see it change people like that!


Thanks for posting that story, it makes this TI feel good to hear stories like this about the "one time only" students that we never see or hear from again.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[bobsled92 0]

Some people, it is a ho-hum disney ride. For some, it is a change in perspective.

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"air-luggage"

[bobsled92 0]

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"air-luggage"

Well,
I honestly wonder about the character of a person that doesn't get an "experience" from jumping.
Like wannabe clowns that say "I did it once, no big deal"...they crapped themselves and don't want to admit it or have the personality of wet sponge.
I only have the jumps shown but, I remember my 1st 7 jumps like yesterday and feel an undescribeable joy in my heart from jumping.
I always want others to feel that too.

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Like wannabe clowns that say "I did it once, no big deal"...they crapped themselves and don't want to admit it or have the personality of wet sponge.

A couple of months ago, there was a group of tandems getting their briefing. Probably 8-10 of them.

Two of the guys are walking off and one of them tells the other, "Yeah, it's no big deal. I have friends who have done tandems. It's not what they make it out to be."

Guess who was bent over in the landing area and doing that dry-spit thing? He wasn't quite barfing, but his mouth was too dry to spit, so he had his hands on his knees and was going "Ptuu...ptuu..."

The winner? Mister I-ain't-skeered

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"Yeah, it's no big deal. I have friends who have done tandems. It's not what they make it out to be."

Well, that's just ASKING for it!

You can always tell the wusses, they're the ones who talk the biggest.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams