It was dangerous, but I knew I had to do it.
Actually it had been only a joke when I had said to my friends, that my biggest wish so far would be to do a bungy jump. But either they had been pretending to take it seriously or they believed it.

However this day was my 30th birthday and I was standing on the railing of a huge bridge. Its height was about 500 meters and it made me feel sick thinking about it. I avoided looking beneath my feet but even then I was terrified.

I couldn't remember how I got there. But I still knew that I had been thinking the whole way from home of the best way to escape. But my friends, whose birthday present this bungy jump was, had been sitting around me in the car and enjoying themselves. They hadn't realised my fear.

Finally I dared to look down to the ground and I saw my friends waving. Without another hesitatation, pressurised by their shouting, I gave it a go and fell down...