I had just finished my parachuting training for one month and it was so exciting and unforgettable. I still remembered the scene i jumped off the plane, i was sooooo frightened, nervous, and scary. You will find how brave you exactly are when you join a game which may cause you die. Parachuting is this kind of game. Althought the parachuting is very very very safe, I remember i still didn’t have any courage to jump. Finally, my couch pushed me out off plane for four times and i only jumped by myself only once. I learned a lot in one month training and so proud that I had finished it. Such learning six ways of landing, knew the main parachute and the second one, five-floor-high jumping training, learned how to move and act in the plane, etc. I am glad that I try to challenge myself by joining airborne division, and finally, to be honest, I was failed, I feared to death. My goodness, I had no idea of how to overcome this fear. However, I still moved forward to the door and tried to jump. You had no choice but only moved forward to the door. You would feel relieved and nothing could be feared when landing on the earth. Also, the feeling of flying in the air is sooooooo great, and you can watch the city panorama and all things are very very small.
I needed to stand just in the door and ready to jump in my third jump. When the door opened, I just sat near the door and watched the scenery below the plane. It is sooooo spectacular, a huge and endless plain. I still remembered, my friend who sat beside me told me don’t be so nervous, but I just couldn’t handle my nervousness. My couch pushed me out in ths jump. At last I had finish my five times jumping and obtained my parachuting badge and was very proud of myself. Now I had moved back to taoyuan and everything will be settled soon. My company is a good one and all my seniors are kind to me. Later we will have a lot of intensive training for shooting and prepare for our military exercise in central taiwan, taichung, a remote area.
Some thoughts about my military serviceI gradually find out how luck we are in the army, we are the happiest generation in this century. One decade ago or more, the military service was very painful, the leaders there only would scold you or even hit you when you made a mistake. They maight even scold you or hit you without any reason. Besides, the training and punishment were sooooo severe or even inhuman. The training in the army often went beyond our human’s limiit and some maight hurt our body or even cause death. However, people always felt proud of themselves after they finished the training. Also, they would get more courage and flexible and persevere when they finish their service. As time goes by, our human right go higher and higher gradually, a lot of severe training are forbidden by our government now. Therefore, our military life now is like a holiday, a lot of our old people always said that to me. I always feel ashamed that we lead a better life in the army. And a great number of my old friends also doubt our fighting capability. We will be defeated only in few minutes when the enemy attacks us. So, I chose airborne division in order to show my courage and get severer training. To be a soldier is kind of honer, brave and not afraid of any challenge and bitter. I am in the army about three months, and I always feel very touching whenever I watch a military program, which plays a very severe training.
A lot of my friends hate military service sooooo much, almost no one like it cause’ no one are willing to come here. But I am kind of different, and I try to cherish it since we had already come here. I learned to live a different life here, a regular life(a very healthy life), a life I need to have more energy and courage and patience, a life I can live with a lot of different-class people, I try to realize our seniors and ancestors’ pains, tears, sweat and blood here. It is a very special and unforgettable experience for all our Taiwan men.
Learn to cherish all things you have, stop complaining and comparing. Sometimes you just can't change the situation, try to look it in another side, a bright side, and accept it. And it is our life.
A no formal website about my airborne division:
http://www.airborne.idv.tw/It is a good website, you can take a look.
