Leap
I want to base jump right now, so much.
(I think its partly missing the adrenaline, but also partly a question, one that says that maybe I’ve lost my edge. A big “do I still have it in me?”)
“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Today I really miss that hair-raising, heart-racing, goosebumps, icy-knot-of-fear sinking feeling while you look down into the abyss right before you will yourself to leap.
And then all that fear turns to joy. It’s an intense feeling, and there are a few moments right in the middle of it when you’re not thinking about the leap or the landing: you’re just in perfect harmony with the universe.
There are few things like that in life. I happen to have been blessed enough to have found two. Jumping off of really high things with only some stainless steel and ballistic nylon holding me to the here and now and creating something from nothing.
❤
Skydiving is something I am both scared of but excited to do. I can’t wait to do it but even thinking about it gets my heart racing! Awesome that you have done it.
I highly recommend it man, it’s a life changer that’s for sure!