Leaping

They hiked to the top of a granite cliff overlooking a crystal lake in Yosemite. When they arrived the youngest looked out across the blue, stripped off his t-shirt, flung out his arms, and soared off into the liquid canvas below. His brother, finding himself alone on a rock, gathered up and followed.
I saw aerial pictures later and gasped "You could have died!"

And I am a careful and grateful spectator climbing out upon the rocks of Earth Beautiful, to have a better look and sometimes to get my bearings. But at the end of my days when they dust off my life story, I don't want their thoughts to be "You could have lived!"

                                                                   Be not afraid.