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This is a video of one of the most catartic moments of my life: taking off for my first paragliding flight alone.
I was scared to death but I went anyway.
I sent a "I love you" message to Lucia with no futher details (she did not know where I was) and I went.
Here is the post I made just after.
" My first flight: it was hard to go up and down the hill all those times and it was terrifying to actually take the decision to run towards void, alone. And I mean truly terrifying, I was actually about to cry... and then... it was bliss, no fear no more, not even happiness, just the closest thing I can imagine to nirvana. It's similar to the moment before a car crash, where you don't think, you just "are". You are not dead and not alive, you are simply there: every decision is already taken, void in the mind as you have in front of you. And off you go toward the sun, bright, with the Alps all around, passing above Montreux and Château de Chillon and then arriving to the lake, wide, calm. Then you follow Stephane's instructions on the radio, like if it was the word of God. And it works! Amazing! It's like discovering how to walk again. You don't think "Am I doing it right?" or "If I do it wrong I die...". You just do what Stephane says. And then you pass above Villeneuve and you land and you are back into human world, all fades away like it was a dream... and then, somebody comes with a video, it was true then! And now, only now, you are happy, a bit overwhelmed, but happy. " 19/09/2017