How do you define a winner?
How do you know someone is a successful person?
We always determine people's value with money, fame, power and beauty. This is not wrong. I know try to get one of these factors is not a wrong choice. In fact, I was nearly in step to become rich man.
My job as a vice manager in sales department couldn't help me to live in wealthy life but my online investment in stock exchange was really "booming" my bank account.
If I sell all my share in those stocks, i could gain nearly 500,000 dollars. That insane amount can only be collected if i work for this sales company for fifteen years. The fortune for my investment due to progressive economy from foreigners fund.
I can't imagine I can be this lucky, thanks god, i start my monthly investment little by little, since i start work here, three years ago.
But all of these is useless. Nonsense. It is all pointless. Nothing can't be done. Why? Why I am this depressed? It all started when i liquidated one fifth of my stock. With just a few clicks, i easily get 100,000 dollars in my account.
First thing that i want to do is extreme sport. Yeah, a skydiving. I have athletic build body and my experience in sport is not bad. I swear if I don't work in sales company right now I could have joined sport teams in football league.
Extreme sport is my favourite guilty pleasure as the adrenaline rush excited me like my body feel rejuvenate thoroughly. My holidays was always spend with fitness activities as I like to challenge my limit on the body.
I as an adrenaline junkie, don't have any preference to spend my money into any expensive gadget or famous brands. I quickly search any package that include skydiving activity in their program.
Among famous extreme sport, skydiving is my first wishlist as you completely surrender to gravity power, make your adrenaline pumped actively in your body.
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"Ok, guys. Remember what we told you in practice before. Always keep calm and follow the drill from us." (Instructor)
Right now, I happily smile as we flew in the sky. I eagerly waiting for my turn to dive bravely into the sky.
"Are you ready, man? On my mark, one, two, three, GO!" (Instructor)
"ARGHHHHH!!!"
I am screaming after I throw myself from the airplane. The feeling of terror due to unknown death is attacking me. But I am not flinched even an inch as I secretly pursue this feeling.
Despite of scare and weak, i am actually feel very happy and excited as the wind from below keep blowing me hardly, this strong pressure make one second in the sky feel as a long time to me. Seriously, I not lie.
Now I ready to open my parachute. Zappp, something is snapped. But I am still falling down in high speed. Am I pulling the wrong zip? I try to inspect my parachute bag, i really try hard to open it but nothing happened.
Oh shit, oh shit, oh my god, did I make a mistake? Did i take a wrong bag? Does this mean this parachute can never be opened and I will land the ground without any safety measure? Oh man, oh man, stop with this negative thinking. It is not helping, seriously.
After i fail to open the parachute, I try to look at my surrounding. I look down, I look up, even I gaze my eyes in my sides hardly. Wait a minute, where is my instructor? There is should be eleven people in the plane, where are them?
Does this mean only I jump from the plane? No, no, no, no, this is wrong. I am the fifth person who diving into sky. There should at least four person below me. But not such a person figure in front of me. Oh shit, only green scenery from deep forest in front of me.
What should I do right now, surrender and ready to die? I know my survival rate right now is close to zero but seriously I don't want to die. I want to live. I am still young. I am still not marry anyone. Oh, please help me, anyone. Oh god, please help me. PLEASE!!
"Arghhhh!!! It hurt, my shoulder! What the hell happened??!?"
Suddenly I feel a sharp pain in my both shoulders. There is like a knife been stabbed from back view. I feel my mouth has been wet, the taste is like blood. What, the blood? Do my mouth vomit the blood due to pain from unknown reason?
Painfully, I slowly turn my head to back, and my face immediately become pale. I can't believe it. The sight is not funny but a horror one. I feel like I am looking at my grim reaper right now.
The head is an eagle but the body is a match to lion. The size is easily more bigger than any superbike, in fact I think even SUV is still a small figure compared to this unknown creature.
Wait, is this a mystic beast? The one from legendary folk tales, the only one exist in screen. I know its name. It is a gryphon.
I lost my sight as my eyes feel heavier. My shoulders still feel pain from the "knife" but i think it is the claw. Slowly I loss my conscience and fainted while still hanged in the sky. Yeah, a tragic death, even I don't wish to die like a prey.