“My mother once said that I’d be amazed at how many things a person can do within the act of falling. Perhaps, at the time, she was teaching me to dive off a board at the town pool, for I associated the idea with midair somersaults. But I also think she meant that even in that awful doomed second one could think, for she certainly did”

What are the thoughts that you believe rush in the mind of a person who is midair, falling rapidly towards the ground? Before reading the story, what do you believe the character’s mother meant when referencing all of the things a person can do within the act of falling?