I am a former Cirque Du Soleil Acrobat

It was nearly ten years ago, which seems far too recent to me, when I first thought of Cirque Du Soleil. Well, I had heard of their shows, mostly from friends of mine on the Cal team who suggested that the things they had seen at Cirque shows were "impossible", and I had never considered the idea of joining Cirque. The idea had literally never entered my mind because in my mind, I was a decent gymnast but never capable of doing the impossible.