>>9115844I wonder what it felt like, in that sunset, to pull back on that stick among the clouds, watching the horizon line slip by as the plane came over. Seeing the water rushing towards him, doubtful of whether or not he was going to make it. He only made that roll by a few degrees, it must have been the most exhilarating moment of his whole life, that altitude would've felt like kissing the water. It must have felt like destiny, the plane practically skimming the water, surrounded by the hills of the nearby islands, slingshotting back out for that right bank he made afterwards on all the speed he built up coming down. He clearly didn't expect to live
"I was kinda hoping that'd be it, you know?"
It must have felt like a rebirth, total willingness to die, complete commitment to cause, not expecting to avoid the water, and then, incomprehensible exhilaration. Then, only a few minutes later, he crashes into an empty island. Going out on the high note of his existence. In the moment of the image that is used as his symbol, he is pulling back hard through a bank after that roll, I'm certain he has the biggest smile on his face, and that he felt totally free.
Nobody can copycat what he did, because he did it on total faith, with no expectation of outcome. Rich was just a man trying to live, others would just be men trying to be Rich.
