You can just fly
Humans have dreamed of flight for as long as we know, even though the aircraft has been invented, we hold in our dreams a different kind of flight. A weightless kind, no roaring engines, no air traffic control, more like Superman gliding through the clouds effortlessly. This dream is in our collective imagination, what if I told you we already have the ability to do it?
According to Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy":
The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
And also that you must do so accidentally, you need to be almost distracted before you can do it.
[Flight schools] hire people with surprising bodies or opinions to leap out from behind bushes and exhibit and/or explain them at the critical moments.
Once in the air:
[People] are most likely to say something along the lines of "Good God, you can't possibly be flying!" It is vitally important not to believe them or they will suddenly be right.
Douglas is joking of course, or is he? What if I told you that we have already invented a motorless way of flying that almost nobody is doing? It's called paragliding, you strap a parachute to your back and jump off a mountain and you make sure to miss. For a thing that most people fantasise about, there are not a lot of people learning how to do it. "Well," I hear you say, "I don't have a mountain to jump from", but a windy beachfront will do fine too. Or if really in a pickle, you can be launched from flat ground with a winch.
Just like birds you ride the wind and let the warm updrafts lift you higher to extend your flight. When the weather is right you can fly for hours.
Of course the dream is not perfect, there are real dangers to paragliding, but it is funny to me how we collectively dream about such an attainable thing and not pursue it. There are some costs in materials and schools and all that, but there are a lot of people who can afford it but still don't do it.
Well, not me, I signed up for a beginners' paragliding course, and when you see me flying, DO NOT WAVE, for I might realise I am.