Jump!

Waking up this morning was much more a daunting task than the decision to fall asleep last night. Isn't that just so how it is? It's the action before that comes so easily, starting us on the path down, yet the finish seems perhaps the hardest part. I will confess this is not the case for all things, however, the start of events are often the easiest part. There are two kinds of people in this world, jumpers and walkers. I use this analogy for the sake of my infatuation for waterfall jumping. There are three parts to waterfall jumping. First is the Run. The run is what really defines a person, the fact that we're able to suck up our fears and turn them into pure, sincere, courage. This is the point where we decide if we want to take the consequences that face us after the run. On the other spectrum of this living standard is what we call the walkers. People that walk to the edge, stare down the falls and reason with themselves whether or not they can survive the fall. The greatest difference between them comes after their initial decision. Any runner will tell you that there is a certain thrill you don't fell when you walk. However, walking or running, they have both decided to take the chance of jumping. However, there are also two kinds of jumpers. The first jumpers we like to call the closed jumpers, the ones that jump, but don't want to see the result. They still feel the rush of the wind blowing past, and they've made the decision but are willing to close their eyes and hide from the results. Of course the second jumper is the eyes opened death staring jumper, facing all of their problems and waiting for the results to come, fully appreciating the whole experience, the whole way down only waiting for the opportunity only to jump again. Finally we reach the reason we ran and jumped. The splash. No one can explain the sheer joy that comes from the splash, it just is. We all want that rush of unexplained joy, that happiness when you hit the water and every thought, every decision we've ever made bowls down and disappears in that one second. Everything becomes clear and whether you're a runner or a walker, you crave that experience one more time.