A rush, a complexity, an
idiosyncrasy...What else I can say. What
Felix did may not be a world changing one. What
he did may not change the plight of billions of people around the world. He may
not put a presumptuous step to take the human race, a leap ahead. But this
dude’s made of balls of steel. Some excerpts from his upshot speech which
echoed every bit of his exasperating emotion when he’s inside an
ominous-looking flat spin that Baumgartner went into around 90 seconds into the
descent.
"Because I have a manual push button where I
can release a drogue [stabilization] chute which pulls me out of the flat spin,
but at the same I time I knew if I push that button, this thing is all over,
we're not going to fly supersonic."
Losing out the comfort
zone, tackling the adrenaline rush to sooth out the right decision…What not.
Felix had not only shown his incredible panache but also his flamboyance in
reaching out his goal no matter what the condition is. Even though his prime
motivation is to come back alive (as said in his interview after the dive), he
never wanted to compromise in his calculated risk to go for an extra mile. Such
is his knack, such is his compassion and above all, he still want to challenge
himself.
Vince Lombardi said
- “I
firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfilment of all that
he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause
and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. “ Incomplete.
Incomplete. The man’s finest hour, his greatest fulfilment lies in his ability
to challenge himself to the extreme and give his heart out to raise the bar of
human spirit. History might have been written by the victors, but to be one of
them…Look beyond the written lines.
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