Great post!
I have been quite myopic since age seven ... I was told that I would never be able to qualify for a pilot's license, which I believed until I was 30 years old and actually looked into it properly. In a way, I am glad that I missed out on potential years of flying: it keeps me from taking anything for granted.
Flying an aircraft (
any aircraft) is a great privilege, even if it's merely a beat-up old [insert name of despised airplane type here].