Wow.. didn't expect that much response to this thread. thanks for the inputs. Honestly, giving up skydiving completely doesn't seem like an option to me. not being with the woman I love - even less so. Guess I have to look for a solution that allows both.. at least on long terms. The other thing said many times, seems true as well. Skydiving won't run away. Although if fuel prices keep going up like that, we sooner or later won't be able to afford it any longer. But that's a whole different topic. I could never understand how people could give up skydiving unless injuries, etc. force them to. But then, I never really believed in true love either.. that's exactly why I'm probably the only skydiver who doesn't have at least one tattoo. I even had to fake one with a magic marker to get past student status. It's not like we could really control that, is it? Wow.. lots of respect to that. Must've been great to do your first jump after 13 years.. ...Shooting heroine? I suspect some people who claim "it's not love if you can't do what you love blahblahblah" are hiding their fear of having to make a lifestyle altering decision... so true. all of it. It certainly is the whole package. Including the compromises. I think skydiving is somehow similar to drug addiction. It makes you spend all your money on it, lose some friends, find some new, sometimes ruins your career, health, etc.. And then, isn't it the lifestyle altering decisions that are the hardest to take?
