100 year old Calgary woman celebrates birthday with a 6,000 ft skydive
Via Shawn Foust / Team Skydive
This article needs a proper happy-cry warning. Grab yourself some tissues, please and thanks. A 100-year old Calgary woman just celebrated her birthday with a 6,000-foot skydive. This is proof that age is just a number, people.
Patricia MacKenzie fulfilled a self-made vow by tumbling out of a plane above California, and then said she’d even like to do it again. “I never thought it was extraordinary … I suppose it seems a bit odd, but I just did it for me,” the senior told the Calgary Herald. “It was very pleasant — book it for next year if I’m alive.”
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Patricia actually said she was ready at 90 years old was but talked out of it by her family and husband, citing her age a risk. Years later, when her husband passed away, her kids changed their minds.
“When you reach the age of 100, really, you deserve to do what you want to do,” her son Julian Colbeck said. He then added that her husband “would have been proud now that she’s done it and is safe.”
If this woman isn’t the literal personification of BDE, then we literally have no idea what or who is. Keep living your dreams, people of Calgary!
