Dying to live

She walked to the edge, a vast expanse spread out beneath her.
The wind was blowing her hair across her face.
She kicked the stones around her over the edge, watching them freefall. She could be that free. It was just one step forward.
So she closed her eyes, gave her body and mind a moment to comprehend what she was about to do, and fell into the canyon beneath her.

Strange thing was though, the seconds that it took for her to fall to her death- those seconds were the only time that she had ever really been alive.