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From: yzarn@lhdsy1.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Blue Sky blues
Keywords: Gravity, inertia
Message-ID: <935@lhdsy1.chevron.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 16:20:41 GMT
References: <22538@paperboy.OSF.ORG>
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research, La Habra, CA.
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In article <22538@paperboy.OSF.ORG> groff@lynx.osf.org (Paul Groff) writes:
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>I got some serious blue sky blues...  I'm afraid of the plane ride up...
>I don't really have the money to buy my own gear...  I think about my
>wife and kids and wonder whether I should be in this sport...
>...deleted text...
>What is this damn glue on my feet?  Have any of you gone through this
>turmoil?  Am I really a whuffo at heart?
It is called *fear of dying*. Skydiving is not for everyone, and that's
OK. You have a few jumps so you proved to yourself you could do it. Now
you are wondering if you have to prove something else. It is up to you.
Skydiving is not *that* dangerous, but everyone has a different
interpretation of what *that* is.
Wife, kids, money, etc.. all of these are excuses. Just accept it. You
do not have to be a skydiver to be a "man" (with apologies to women). I
know lots of skydivers who barely get to be "humans" ;-).
Skydive because you feel like it, not because others are doing it.
-- 
  Philip Yzarn de Louraille                 Internet: yzarn@chevron.com
  Research Support Division                 Unix & Open Systems
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