Warning

In bold letters

DANGER

Possible death could result

Reads the paper

Today I am an adult

I sign the paper

They strap me into my harness

I climb up a steal ladder into a plane

It’s a small plane with no seats inside

I sit on the ground along with seventeen other people

We sit close in an awkward position straddling one another

When the plane reaches fourteen thousand feet the door slides open

The cold wind howls through the plane

A guy jumps out followed by a few others

Then my tandem partner stands us up

We walk to the edge

As I look down everything seems to come to a halt

Earth is quit

It is all so surreal

I think

Is this really happening

I see the top of the airplane as my stomach drops

I don’t remember jumping

I’m falling

Falling

Falling

I am overwhelmed with excitement as gravity takes place

We freefall for a minuet

Then

The parachute deploys

We float back to earth

And safely land

There are no words

Nothing is comparable

Skydiving was defiantly the best way to spend my eighteenth birthday