RIGA - Sometimes something just doesn't feel right; moreover, everything around you irritates you for no obvious reason. You probably know the feeling. Searching for the root of the problem doesn't help at all. Usually, finding the cause is fairly easy and whatever the problem is, be it noisy neighbors or a mild stomach ache from eating an old pizza, it sorts itself out quicker than you can manage to notice. But in cases like this everything is a lot different.
No matter how hard you try, you can't help yourself and end up with the day ruined completely, because nothing helps. And the longer you suffer the more unbearable this suffering gets and you feel like your head is about to explode from the endless assortment of ideas about what could possibly have gone wrong.
The answer to what has gone wrong is, simply 's NOTHING! In most cases absolutely nothing has gone wrong, which is why you can't think of a cure. It is your mind, which takes nothing for granted and constantly needs some activity, which makes you believe there's a problem, because this way you'd have to solve the puzzle. The mind is capable of anything in the world, just to keep itself occupied.
Boredom and laziness are the roots of all the bad things happening in the world, however, in an attempt to fight them humanity has come up with a lot of amazing things. Stuff like the Segway, cars and planes, laptops and machine-guns. All this effort has been done to reach two goals, apart from getting profits obviously, and these are to keep us occupied and smiling.
The world has a bunch of stuff that we want to lay our hands on. The reason for this is that humans are impulsive by nature. If a woman sees a nice necklace or a scarf, nothing can stop her from buying it. We, and by 'we' I mean 'men,' went a bit further and invented capitalism and banks, to help us buy useless things that we can't afford at the moment.
You see now, there is a very limited number of necessary products. All one really needs is food, drink, a house and a horse. Everything else you can live without. You can even live without the horse, and in some rare cases, horse and food are synonymous. All the rest is stuff that makes you who you really are - a football player, a musician, a racing driver or a fighter pilot. All the rest are just your passions and interests. Of course you can limit your interests to beef and mashed potatoes, but then you'll hardly be able to maintain a simple conversation, and that is no way to live your life.
One would argue that practicality and the amount of comfort that an item brings to your life is more important to a person, than say, how wide it can make you smile.
No it isn't, unless you've raised your children to be small and strong, to get the perfectly balanced compromise between how little space they take up and how many bags of concrete they can carry at once. You want them to be fun and smart. Attractiveness is a very important issue. You'd like your kids to be on the cover of a magazine, wouldn't you? And what practicality or sense does it bring to your life? Absolutely none, apart from you being in a better state of mood.
It's the same with planes. They do make your life a bit easier, as they are a lot faster than ferries or coaches. But if it comes to the necessity of getting from A to B, trains and cars do their jobs quite well. But flying is a lot more fun. And scary, too. This is why people are so attracted to anything that flies. It sort of takes you to a totally different world, leaving all your problems on the ground and allowing you to enjoy your nominal self. Up there you're neither good nor bad; it doesn't matter if you're pretty or wearing old jeans with socks that don't match. You're simply smiling and turning your head in every possible direction to catch every single positive emotion flying around in your cockpit.
There are now hundreds of pilot schools in Europe which offer one to get a PPL (Private Pilot License) in less than 6 months. And if you're not sure whether you want to learn, you can always arrange for the instructor to take you for a 'ride,' this way you don't normally get to give it a go yourself, though.
Flying becomes easy and available. This is why small aircraft are gaining popularity around the world, without taking the global recession into consideration. Yes, it is pricey, indeed, but it is also one of the most wonderful feelings in the universe 's to be airborne.
