¶ … fear and beating timidity but few know about the actual pleasure and sense of freedom that accompanies such a step. When you take that one crucial step after which fear becomes an unfamiliar feeling and limitations cease to exist, you suddenly realize you have done it! Done what many talk about but few have the courage to actually achieve. I am glad I was one of those few courageous men and women out there when I decided to go bungee jumping in Australia.
At the age of 18, I believed I was an average person with my fair share of weaknesses and shortcomings but it was after that one experience in Australia that I realized that most of our weaknesses are self-created. I realized our fears are nothing but what society and culture conditions us to embrace as something normal. We grow up carrying this burden of being normal and hardly ever question the nature or source of our fears. Naturally when we don't question them, we don't even seek out a way to remove them.
However I was extremely lucky to be given a chance when in one crucial moment, I left behind all limiting beliefs, all false notions of what I could do and every senseless theory about human boundaries. The moment I jumped off the 50 feet high bridges, I knew I was doing something that would profound affects my beliefs about my capabilities and in a positive way too. And God, Was it liberating!
Liberation-Yes Liberation, more than adrenalin rush and exhilaration, is what I felt after that experience. It liberated me forever from the chains of false beliefs about man's capabilities. Bungee jumping may be a regular thing for some, but since I could never even picture myself jumping off a 50-feet high bridge, it was certainly a huge personal achievement. It was significant because to this day, this one experience helps me remove my self-imposed limitations in many areas, Its gives me the confidence to give destiny a nudge, fear a smack and dare to achieve more. The experience made me realize that one single opportunity of this kind contains within it the power to profoundly affect your old beliefs provided you are courageous enough to seize it.
