There are 3 categories of people, if we imagine that life is lived on board of an airplane (where everything is transitory, unstable and in continuos movement) and in the bottom there are the several aims to achieve.
I don't see life as reaching goals that are on the top of a mountain, but as in the bottom of a dark valley, of which we don't know destiny, depth and difficulties.
Once we touch the bottom, we are forced to look for another goal, and therefore we go up on another airplane, ready for another launch.
Now I mentioned three categories:
1) those who in order to reach an elevated number of aims, do not care too much to control their parachute, or to predict how much will be the duration of the fall, or what there will be when they will touch the bottom; they just throw themselves and don't think twice about it. Calmly, during the fall, they open their parachute and wait and hope that the moment of the impact son't be too traumatic. Once they tried, they stand up and immediately look for other launches, other goals, other impacts that give them satisfaction, that make them feeling alive.
2) there are people who before making every launch check meticulously their parachute, they don't trust about people who came back from the previous launch saying that everything will be all right. These people here over-think about every detail, trying to control the length, duration and pain of the impact, and mostly, they control that parachute that they carry behind their shoulder: it is the only they trust. Therefore these people will spend their lives always on the board of the train, paralyzed from the fear to hurt themselves in reaching the goal; and when they decide it is the moment to jump, they open their parachute too early, inside the airplane, remaining trapped with no other way out.
3) the last category is made of people who leave in a intermediate situation between the first two. These people are tremendously concerned about what will be the future and control their parachute meticulously, before each launch, but what it matters for them is not the number of jumps or aims achieved, but to taste every moment of the fall: from when they are leaning from the airplane to observe the bottom, to the moment where the feet touch the ground: every instant is important.
It is like this that these people remember the whole pattern and truly enjoy the result: they look out, watch around, feel their hearth palpitation more and more intense, jump, fly and maybe scream or laugh or cry, open their parachute, let themselves be transported from this confident burden and finally touch the ground safe and healthy.
The goal is achieved and nothing went bad. Once they touched the soil, they don't think immediately "what will be my next goal?", on the contrary, they carefully close again their parachute, put it on their shoulders and walk, walk until they will be ready. Some of them won't be ready anymore after one single jump (IInd group), other change and want obtain more and more aims (Ist group), and others stay with their feet on the ground and an upward gaze (IIIrd group), their trusted parachute always on their shoulder, ready eventually to climb on the airplane in order to relive the same emotions... or to just observe the sky and the time in front of them.
