The title to this blog is absolutely true, if you want to do sky diving twice you need a parachute. You can go once and will have the ride of what is left of your life but I could never do that. I would be terrified. In fact I would also be terrified of jumping with a parachute. It is not for me.
It is not the kit that would be the problem I would have complete confidence in the people organising the jump it is my imagination that would bring up horrible images. And that is the cusp of this writing prompt. I think that you can have a ‘belt and braces’ approach to life absolutely safe and secure but your imagination will always produce a fantasy of horror.
Roald Dahl points out in one of his books that the nightmare of rich people is that they wake up in the morning with nothing in the bank. Being rich insulates you from the troubles and tribulations of real life and to go from pampered luxury to real life must be a terrible thing. A horrific example is when the top fell off Charles II cane at his trial and nobody reached down to pick it up. To go from King to normal person must be a test of character.
The danger of this question, this geni bargain, is to remove reality from our lives. In real life success is never assured. We have proverbs about ‘best laid plans’ and ‘slips between cup and lip’ and life is always a gamble however well you stack the cards in your favour. Chance and chaos find a way.