In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
ABBY SUNDERLANDOne day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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It was amazing to see all the support that he got from around the world and to see how everyone worked together to help make his dream reality. Watching him do this really made me believe that I could too.
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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
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If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
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But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.
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It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don’t want to put them in a position to fail.
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I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.
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When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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I’m one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.
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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.
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The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
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If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn’t run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.
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