... and convincing my wife that I'll able to fly once I step off the cliff.
I was fortunate enough that my wife (although highly skeptical) was trusting enough to go along. Sometimes you just have to make the leap. Wish I had earlier, instead of listening to my fears and the fears of those around me.
If I had to warrant a guess I'm gonna say it's wingsuit flying. I can imagine his friend living at the top of a mountain putting on his squirrel suit to get one last glimpse of Hawaii before shit hits the fan.
Fight the moonlight, drama queen. Falling is not the problem, ego is. His sense of entitlement is baffling. Why does he want to be some sort of flying god if he's a human?
I'm all for the progress of science toward winged machines but demanding flight right now... is quite over the top.
(Edit: I do understand how someone could be surprised by his sense of entitlement. I don't see, however, how it follows that we should not at least try just because the problems sounds really, really hard. Humans had never flown, but that doesn't mean humans will never fly. Same goes for many things, including death.)
I have a reasonable fear of heights. And I thought that I'd 'freeze' at the plane's doorway. No such thing. It was literally a breeze. So much so that I immediately wanted to repeat the experience.
Flying is terrifying.
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