Would you have parachuted to the ground?

Imagine for a brief moment that you were the first parachutist.

Would you have taken the plunge? Could you have jumped from an unimaginable height, trusting only a large piece of untested fabric to prevent your accident or death? Would you have parachuted to the ground?

Then consider this, what if you designed and built the first parachute. Would you have dared to use it to prove that your invention works? Or would you have trusted your creation enough to ask someone else to risk their life for you?

Thinking these questions through, I realized the tremendous amount of courage, daring, and trust inventors place on themselves and in their creations.

Had the inventor of the first parachute lacked the courage to jump or the boldness to dare think that it was possible, its difficult to imagine how different air safety would be.

Or flying itself. Where would we be today, had the Wright brothers been too scared to test their flying machine? If you consider that the same can be true of other inventions that are now part of our everyday lives, it seems we have the courage and boldness of these inventors to thank, as much as their science and ingenuity.

This is Day 262 of @mariannewest 5-Minute Freewrite. You can view the prompt here.

It's also Day 6 of my goal to write everyday, for 100 days.

Thanks for reading.

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