The closest thing to flying you have ever experienced

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Ever since I read Animorphs I wondered what it would feel like to fly. I mean it must be a really great thing, not even Tobias was thrilled by it but also the other Animorphs pointed out how wonderful flying is several times.
A few days ago I came across a small playground and I did something I haven't done for a very long time: I swang! And immediately I had this special feeling I always had when I sat on a swing in my childhood days. A feeling of complete happiness and freedom. And when I fixed my gaze at the blue sky above me and swang harder and harder, for me, it almost felt like I was flying. I know compared to parachuting or something similar, swinging must be pretty lame but as parachuting is always linked with a certain danger I think swinging is the closest thing to flying I will ever get. (and planes don't count for me).

Has anybody ever had such an experience where you thought : Wow, this is how Tobias must feel when he is soaring the thermals.