Sporting activities like bungee jump, sky-diving, wing-suit surfing etc. are known as extreme sports. These activities, when done provide an adrenaline rush like nothing else. Over the past few years, there has been a significant growth in the number of people indulging in such activities, turning it into a multi-billion dollar industry. But along with excitement comes the risk of losing once life as well.
To begin on a positive note, I see these activities as a way to concur once fears, a mean to gain confidence, and learn to appreciate the life’s difficulties. When an individual indulges in extreme sporting activities, it not provides the person with a short boost of excitement but gives the person the energy and exhilaration to achieve every task better in the day to day life. A person is motivated to go above and beyond his limits. Do things which the person previously thought were not something he could perform and conquer. A person afraid of heights when goes on to do sky-diving, his phobia ceases to exist. A person afraid of water when goes on to do scuba diving, his fear diminishes.
On the other hand, over the past years, there are hundreds of reports of people losing their life while taking part in such activities. Due to lack of following safety measures, or just due to the failure of equipment has claimed many lives. In a recent case, a woman doing tandem sky-dive lost her life along with the instructor due to equipment failure.
To paraphrase the above, I feel everything we do and take part in has both, the negative and the positive face. It depends on a person to take this risk or not.
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