If you stayed at same job, with same pay, lived at same apartment? What if nothing changed but years? You still would have goals and dreams but what if you never took action on any of them?

How long are you going to go through same story lines like soap operas do? Just changing names and faces as time rolls on. Is it going to take one, two or even ten years for you to figure it out? What is it going to take for you to realize that you are just replaying same events over and over again?

You say you want to make a change in your life but you are afraid to take that first step. If you don't move you won't get anywhere. You'll be stuck in same situations and will repeat them over and over again. You can't let your fear keep you frozen. If you do you'll only have a life full of regrets and what ifs.

I have always wanted to fly . . .

I thought of, wanted to, made enquiries about joining Air Force after I left school, but it never came together.

Then this happened, and that happened, and it receded into dim and distant land of wishes and unfulfilled hopes.

Until -

10 months ago, I picked up a book at my brother-in-law's on Paragliding. He's been hang-gliding for years, but somehow that never really appealed to me.

But as I started paging through this book, I suddenly got back all my yearnings and intense desires to soar like birds. Mechanical flight doesn't quite cut it for me, and I never considered Gliding - thought it would cost too much. :o{

How many things in your life have you dismissed as unrealistic and unreachable on basis of "your thoughts" instead of doing a little basic research? (I will not divulge my shameful history! )

But here was what I had been looking for for so long. I could feel myself floating along on thermals under wing - I could taste freedom.

As soon as I got back to my PC, I searched for Paragliding schools in our vicinity, and found one not too far away that offered a training course, etc.