The Urge To Jump

In the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Johnny Depp asks of the other characters "You know how when you're standing in a high place... and you get the urge to jump??"

I was thinking about this when I stumbled across some YouTube videos about Free Soloing.

Like this one.

Watching that, I felt sick, I felt scared even watching it. Even sitting at my desk, I was afraid that if I moved too much I'd fall. The falling would be fine- that was the damnedest thing, the falling wouldn't bother me.And the end would come too quick.

Think on that a bit, how easy it would be to let it all go. A little loosening of the muscles in yourr hand, that's not a suicide. That's a moment's curiosity. That's... one slip. It terrified me, how easily I knew I could let go. I'm not suicidal... I don't want to die. But I am curious, what it would be like to be on those mountains and just let go.