I agree with you that most peoples lives are boring, including yours. You went skydiving? Wow, congratulations and join the line of 100,000's of people that have tried it once as well. I have over 700 skydives, and I can tell you first hand, skydiving is dangerous...when your responsible for your own life, unlike you when you went tandem attached to someone who was responsible for your fate. I also fly avidly and have my pilots license. The point I'm trying to make (and I'm not just trying to brag) is that most people are boring and never follow a passion and find what they love that is RELATIVELY UNIQUE. You on the other hand, like a average and boring person, have not followed a passion filled with risk. You merely were a tourist and after experiencing something, went back to your average life. P.s. buying a paraglider and "trying" to fly isn't a risk, it's a reckless and unmotivated act of trying to seem like your not average. Did you ever get off the ground with paraglider? doub it. But with a little passion, you would have seeked out instruction and would have become an avid paraglider pilot. Not the case...because you're boring and average.