More "Excitement" Than You Have Paid For! orWhat Happens When You Reach the Bottom?

Our world undergoes the sinusoidal principals of periodic declines and climbings. In our days of the global recession when everyone waits when we reach the bottom and start climbing up I would like to share with you the truly unexpected experience. It's hard to believe but there was a case in my life when I got an idea that it's probably not so great to live in periodic world.

It was Bungy Jumping!

It's really interesting to think how strange the trivial or not so trivial things unexpectedly push you to philosophic discoveries. Now I know that whatever could make you philosopher, even the falling with the bullet speed (was it 2 Mach or it's too much?) down to the Earth surface.

- Man, your knees are shaking, - bungy master tried to take the strain off.
- I bet!

Crane raised us up to 75 meters from the sea level. The night lights on the embankment of Turkish resort Kushadasi laid under and in front of us. Ants watched up expecting the next thrilling fun - one more stupid jumper trying to be cool.

- Turn around. Now take your hands off these rails, if you do not jump I will push you.
- No need. I can fly.

No doubts I can. It's easy to die in sight. Especially if there's a huge crowd below.

I spread my hands and jumped in a classic style seen on TV.

My first discovery was:

DISCOVERY 1: "To fall" does not mean "to fly".
Yeh, you rather feel yourself a dropping pickaxe with the stretched out hands rather then a glyding bird with the spread wings.

DISCOVERY 2: You have time to think about if you fall from the high enough altitude.
I thought about one thing: when it will finish?

DISCOVERY 3: No need to worry about your legs.
I was worrying whether my legs will remain with me when the rope will stop my fall. No problem there. It slows down gently. It slows down and you have more extra time to think about.

And that's exactly the illumination moment. The moment when you make your philosophic discovery about imperfection of periodic world:
DISCOVERY 4: Damn, it will pull me up again!
Right, dude, that's exactly the whole idea of Bungy:

TO GIVE YOU MORE "EXCITEMENT" THEN YOU HAVE PAID FOR!!!

From this moment you start enjoying Bungy Jumping again. And again. And again. And...
Of course amplitude reduces and 50 meters are much lower then 75 metres! What we are talking about! It's just a poor 17 storey building! Even nothing to discuss!

And, right, don't forget that all this time you need to look like a cool man not like a sack of shit! Crowd's looking, dude:
DISCOVERY 5: It's a hard job for your legs to keep you in a vertical position.
My calfs remembered my endless jumping for a couple days like after the ice hockey match. My back also remembered how I tried to keep the face up pulling head back as a maniac victim with a knife near the throat!

There are several hundred meter bungy in New Zealand, Africa and other parts of the world. I am not sure that bungy is what should inspire me or you to go there. But, mates, after all of above, being there, would you miss an opportunity to try?