Oct 31
There’s a story I once heard on the radio and it haunted me for
years. A reporter for The New Yorker went to San Francisco to interview
the very small group of people who have jumped off the Golden Gate
Bridge – and survived. The circumstances that led each of them to hurl
their lives away were different, but what they shared afterward was
strikingly similar. Each of the jumpers described a moment of clarity,
right after jumping, where all they felt was regret. One survivor said
that as soon as his hand left the railing, he realized in that moment
that everything in his life that he thought was not fixable, was utterly
fixable. “As soon as I jumped,” he said. “I realized that my life
before was perfect.”
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