The Falling Girl

Reading this made me realize how short life was and how sometimes people make decisions which later they regret, like Marta when she for a moment stops and fears that she would have made a mistake in jumping off of the building. One can only imagine the fear and the desperation that Marta felt as she realized this, but for what reason she jumped off? I cannot know. When I started reading I thought "maybe she can stop and be ok" since it was mentioned that she stopped and talked with some people and when the author uses the word "flying" I thought that it was a world of fantasy where everything is possible, where you can never die, when reality doesn't exists, but how wrong I was when at the end the old couple mention the "thud" sound letting us know that all of this was real and that they actually would hit the floor even though it seemed that they were flying or floating and not falling. Perhaps this is just another way of how people portray their lives, as a falling abyss with nothing more than disgrace, fear and pain, I got this from the fact that as she was falling the people greeting her were getting older and older until the end where there was an old couple and they said "At these low floors only falling old women pass by. You can see beautiful girls from the hundred-and-fiftieth floor up. Those apartments don't cost so much for nothing." or maybe this was just life for some women in a certain place, nevertheless I really liked it because of the fanciful influence and almost like an unreal and unnatural world  which I personally love.