I quit and was only 40 jumps into my career. It's hard to give up the friends you make and the good people you get to meet and especially all the good times on the base trips. The hardest part also was thinking that I wasted my mentor's time (who by the way did excellent training and is a very good jumper), but it was a decision i had to make. I made 1 minor mistake on a 250' foot SL jump (and was lucky enough to walk away with only a sore back and knee), but only by sheer luck!! It was a very simple and very stupid oversight on my part. It was amazing the millions of thoughts that ran through my head in the milli-seconds in took for me to decide that I was going in. Just by sheer luck and probably a higher power, my chute opened about 6 feet from the ground. But after the fact, laying in the grass, the only thing going through my mind were those thoughts and i simply decided it was not worth it to me anymore......I was not ready to go out that way. Wouldn't take back any part of my short lived jumping career, but i'm not ready to start it again either......and don't regret my decision either.
