Choices and Decisions

CHOICES AND DECISIONS
Sheri Smith
March 18, 2016

If anyone had told me, in my 30’s, that I would one day end up free-falling from 13,000 feet I would have laughed out loud. I couldn’t walk across a bridge without vertigo setting in, I was so terrified of heights. So, at 42, it was with great trepidation that I found myself strapped to the front of Dean, the sky-dive instructor, hanging out the door of a very loud airplane, staring down at what was about to become either my greatest adventure, or the worst decision of my life. Then before I had a chance to pray, we were in free-fall, hurtling towards the earth at 120 km/hr. The noise was deafening, but my heart was swelling with a feeling of triumph so overwhelmingly intense that there was just no room left for fear. When, all too soon, Dean pulled the rip-cord, the world went silent, all but the gentle ‘whoosh, whoosh’ of the parachute to usher us back to earth.

It was one of the most peaceful moments I’d ever experienced, hovering there in the sky.

People called me bat-shit crazy, but I conquered my fear that day. That had been the whole
point – and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

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