It was my idea to take the stills while skydiving and Ra full heartedly discarded that saying what’s the need when we are taking the full videos and ultimately it’s these stills that are being admired the most among our friend circle and Ra is loving that damn thing so much that he has already ordered framed hardcopies of those stills. I hate him!
But I just loved the idea of freely falling under G-force at the speed of 120-140 miles per hour for about 60 to 80 seconds... tearing down the white cotton balls of clouds into several pieces and meanwhile getting captured inside the lenses of the video man like a big flying bird with all the wacky expressions of trying to smile hard concealing the words worst fears inside and throwing hundreds of flying kisses and doing cabbage dance in the air and clapping and doing a thumbs up … and than landing with a zoooop down the earth and saying dude I loved this … and these were all my ideas and I did not saw any Tom Dick Harry’s skydive before I thought bout em (imagine me with my infamous evil grin).
Humn and this is how it actually went … when we entered the skydiving zone half of my morale came down with the skydivers coming down but somehow I gathered the remaining half and I went up the airplane … and there every second I wanted to yell and ask the damn pilot about how high he want me to jump from, isn’t this ten feet high enough … now it’s a hundred feet … gosh guess its some thousand feet now … o boy I have now even stopped guessing. And here comes the biggest gugly, my photographer is telling me that his still photography camera is not working and so no stills for me. So he means I will do all this ultra hazardous stunt without being photographed, I will go through this entire trauma without being able to get those flying bird snaps which holds the capacity of gathering major appreciations for my valor? Are you kidding me buddy? Okay there s no time to argue about all that since my instructor is telling me that its time now and it’s a fifteen thousand feet above ground level and you have to jump without being photographed. f^&*(()^$* … And he took me near the airplane exit and my face turned white with real fear this time … I forgot all my steps of doing a thumbs up and throwing a flying kiss that I had planned to do before the actual dive, all I remember was Mummmyyyy save me, I don’t wanna jump, take me back I don’t wanna do this stunt, this is all I could think about on that exit door but my instructor turned out to be a deaf crazy monster, he lifted my chin up and yelled at me don’t look down and he literally pushed me down, ohh boy what is it some wild rotations and green land down and the video man on my side trying to hold my hands and one more whirl and down and down. I practiced my cabbage dance on my bed and I had planned to clap and do a yoo … but what is it why am I not even able to open my eyes haan … can somebody stop the spins please I am not a ball I am still alive save me while you still can and than again a zoooop and than up and up my parachute is open and the instructor says “you are now safe, girl! You did well, you can hold your breadth … you can open your eyes and enjoy the ride, there that side it’s Atlantic city, there its Cape May and that’s our Williamstown”.
He did few more twists and twirls, showed me few more views; and he regretted that he couldn’t keep me up in the air till sunset since my husband was waiting down for me to land safely.
And the best part is … when I landed, I remembered very well to pose for a thumbs up and to throw a flying kiss and to hug my instructor and I told my video man that I loved it, it was awesome and I will do it again (I have to, you know it right, I couldn’t get my still photographs this time … grrr).
And this is what was my idea and this is what Ra said he didn't needed and still he got it and this is the pose that I needed so desparately and I missed it this time buhuuuuuu
(But seriously guys, it was awesome and awesome means awesome no cliché this time, do it if ever you get a chance, it was worth every penny. )
