2003-12-05-12:08 p.m.
Skydiving next week... with my Themes and Types class... it's going to be amazing... or scary as hell because the gravity will feel like it's ripping my spine out of my body.

I haven't felt free fall. As kids we jumped off the monkey bars but that lasts for about 1.25 seconds. Has anyone felt the experience of falling but the fall doesn't end. You...just...keep...falling.

I've only felt that in a dream and it was great. It felt like letting go of everything. Sorta like meditation except you wear a jump suit and you have a guy straped to your back.

The opposite sphere is scuba diving. But there are so many rules in scuba diving that as soon as you hit the bottom you're constantly worrying. "Where's my buddy, do we have enough time to stay underwater, don't go up too quickly, don't fall into the coral." Sky diving you just fall and feel. And you so challenge yourself... YOU COULD DIE! Death, the big game over, no more time on the clock. Humanity loves to challenge the limits of his domain. He loves this so much he will challenge the one thing he can't defeat and that could end his activity forever. But still he mocks it! Death is an old lady you can't pin to the mat no matter how strong you are. But we still laugh at it, humans make everything into laughter. We strive to face existence: maybe to tempt it but for sure to experience it as close as possible to say "I felt death." We NEED all these experiences, they were designed to be cultivated.

"What is the point of stories if they aren't even true?" (Haroun and the Sea of Stories)

Oh, there is so much point to a story. Life is not about truth sometimes. Sometimes it's about stories, with your head in the air. It's always sometimes though, why be one set thing?

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