If He Can Do It ...

I vividly remember a dream I had as a child in which I was flying. Flying like a bird. No aircraft, nothing artificial. Just flying over my neighbourhood. Swooping and turning as the mood struck me.

It was the most amazing, overwhelming feeling and it stayed with me when I woke up. And although I can't recreate that feeling now, I can certainly remember how incredible it felt.

Ever since then, I've had this urge to fly like a bird. Hence, my interest in skydiving. Although I realize that won't give me the closest thing to the feeling of flying, it's something I really want to do. And then I plan to move on.

And I figure if a 71 year old can do it, so can I.



I must say, his words do resonate with me:

I started dreaming about flying when I was a kid," the 71-year-old resident of Peterborough, Ont., said Sunday as he prepared his hang-glider for flight. "My first flight was me running off my porch under an umbrella.

"I’ve been flying for more than 40 years. I joined air cadets, got my pilot’s licence as soon as I could afford it, but I didn’t find my true passion until I flew my first hang-glider. Flying one of these gives you a real, true sense of what flying is really all about."

And to think that it's all so close to home.

Yep, first skydiving. Then hang-gliding. I can't help it. I just have this urge to fly, fly, fly.