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Becoming Savage
'Jumping into the Unknown...'
In a Hercules C130 aircraft, there's no Aircon or inflight entertainment and certainly no cute stewardesses serving Tea's and Coffee's.
Only the putrid smell of paratroopers breakfast in discarded sick bags and diesel fumes filling the fuselage.
Looking at the back of Freddie's helmet as we were about to jump, I was panicking.
Telling myself, "If he can jump, I can jump! If he can jump, I can jump! If he can do it, I can do it!"
Whilst trying to suppress the idea of falling to my death, the RAF pilots showing off their escaping and evasion drills at 250ft were making the choice easy to make.
Five hours of low level flying. We just wanted to get off now.
and if the truth be known, after what my training platoon went through just to get in to the Parachute Regiment, there was no way we were gonna refuse to jump now.
The doors were open.
The noise deafening.
Our static lines hooked.
96 paratroopers snarling at the doors.
RED ON!!
Fast forward 15 years to the middle of 2018, I found myself jumping into the unknown again.
Only this time. To write a book.
In other words, Neo on the side of a 20-story building.
No parachute to deploy.
The only hope of avoiding Agent Smith's clutches was a choice between falling to my death and death itself.
www.ImpactClub.com became my Hercules C130 taking me on a journey of discovery.
To reveal my past. To reveal what I've stood for and what I stand for now.
To test whether I still have the courage to do the right thing and to expose my principles across...
Mind.
Body.
Business.
Relationships.
This learning curve has overwhelmed me.
and more often than not, I've struggled to keep up and still nowhere close to mastering writing.
Something my ego loves to highlight. "You can't write that!" "I wouldn't say that.. what would people think... You're having a laugh mate...
...at best, your writing structure is laughable."
That said...
I feel alive again. Scared again.
and just like the day I jumped into the unknown 15 years ago...
I jumped into the unknown again scared shitless.
My book is now complete and ready to be sent to the publisher.
Belief is everything.
Pushing water up hill is the starting point.
If I can do it, you can do it...
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By John Savage'Jumping into the Unknown...'
In a Hercules C130 aircraft, there's no Aircon or inflight entertainment and certainly no cute stewardesses serving Tea's and Coffee's.
Only the putrid smell of paratroopers breakfast in discarded sick bags and diesel fumes filling the fuselage.
Looking at the back of Freddie's helmet as we were about to jump, I was panicking.
Telling myself, "If he can jump, I can jump! If he can jump, I can jump! If he can do it, I can do it!"
Whilst trying to suppress the idea of falling to my death, the RAF pilots showing off their escaping and evasion drills at 250ft were making the choice easy to make.
Five hours of low level flying. We just wanted to get off now.
and if the truth be known, after what my training platoon went through just to get in to the Parachute Regiment, there was no way we were gonna refuse to jump now.
The doors were open.
The noise deafening.
Our static lines hooked.
96 paratroopers snarling at the doors.
RED ON!!
Fast forward 15 years to the middle of 2018, I found myself jumping into the unknown again.
Only this time. To write a book.
In other words, Neo on the side of a 20-story building.
No parachute to deploy.
The only hope of avoiding Agent Smith's clutches was a choice between falling to my death and death itself.
www.ImpactClub.com became my Hercules C130 taking me on a journey of discovery.
To reveal my past. To reveal what I've stood for and what I stand for now.
To test whether I still have the courage to do the right thing and to expose my principles across...
Mind.
Body.
Business.
Relationships.
This learning curve has overwhelmed me.
and more often than not, I've struggled to keep up and still nowhere close to mastering writing.
Something my ego loves to highlight. "You can't write that!" "I wouldn't say that.. what would people think... You're having a laugh mate...
...at best, your writing structure is laughable."
That said...
I feel alive again. Scared again.
and just like the day I jumped into the unknown 15 years ago...
I jumped into the unknown again scared shitless.
My book is now complete and ready to be sent to the publisher.
Belief is everything.
Pushing water up hill is the starting point.
If I can do it, you can do it...