Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Skydive!!

Everyone should go skydiving. It's liberating, it's exciting, it's crazy. You realize what "sensory overload" means. You don't realize what you're doing. You can finally breathe when you see your parachute opened safely. Your heart beats at 100mph when you realize your parachute didn't open safely. You want to slow down when you see the ground coming closer, but the radio in your ear says "wait for it, wait for it" as you speed towards the ground. You don't feel any different once you did it, but you do feel it days later. Every time you look at the blue sky, you dream of being there again. When your car hits 55mph, you have an urge to wave off and pull your seat belt. When the freeway is open and it's safe, you speed to 100mph and stick your head out the window to bring back memories of free fall.

Randomly you recall the feeling of standing at the edge of the airplane and throwing yourself off, the 5 seconds of feeling like you are falling, the 50 seconds of weightlessness and doing the drill, the signals from your instructors, the pull, the sound of your parachute opening, the amazing experience of hanging midair for 10 minutes, with no sound at all, looking around, landing procedures, landing, walking back, reviewing the jump.

And nothing makes the experience more amazing than having your other half there for you, supporting your crazy passion.




9 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Sev here.

It's something I've ALWAYS wanted to do. When the time is right, I will call you and we will go together if you are up for it.

11:17 AM  
Arthur Chaparyan said...

You wimp, you've been saying that for MONTHS! When are you going to grow some and come?

12:00 PM  
Anonymous said...

Sev -

loll.

FIRST OF ALL! ... EVERYTHING ABOUT ME IS VERY WELL GROWN!

second... haha ... you plan it and I will come. Just make it after February and I don't want to spend more than $300 to jump out of a plane.

Let me know what you can do. ;)

Who else out there HAS BALLS!? ... not that i give a shit. lol.

2:01 PM  
Anonymous said...

sev again.

and please stop posting sick/disturbing pictures please.

try a happy, cute, little puppy. Im sure everyone out there would enjoy that a lot more.

:)

2:05 PM  
Anonymous said...

Marina.....
just reading this made my heart start pounding a million beats per second. Its amazing how you could put it in words.... I just said "WOW"
I still won't be able to thank you enough for the random wednesday! and I do have a story that others would dream of telling, but cannot since they have not experienced it. :)
Good times. have fun. be safe.

3:04 PM  
Anonymous said...

Sev again.

Just want to say... HI MARINAAAAAAA !!!!!!

(assuming you are the Marina from Clark). lol.

8:22 PM  
Anonymous said...

Nope sorry.. this is not Marina from clark.. this is another one.. Ive gotten used to it.. people refer to me as the blond one.

11:36 AM  
Anonymous said...

lol. o, ok. Sorry. haha.

well... then... Hi Blonde Marina. lol.

when are we sky-diving Chaparyan?

12:39 PM  
Arthur Chaparyan said...

how about the 26th of this month? last sunday of the year.

8:54 PM  

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