Dylan Smith writes:

They just aren't committed to aviation if they aren't prepared to
sacrifice some of those frivolous things.

Why must they be committed?

Would you enjoy it if you could only drive a car by sacrificing everything
else in your life? Is it wrong for people to want to drive cars even though
they are not willing to sacrifice everything else to do so?

Why must a person practically become a martyr in order to fly?

With attitudes like that, there won't be any pilots at all one day. Saying
"if you want to fly, you must suffer in every other way" isn't going to swell
the ranks.

Granted, you can't do that if you have a family, but if you don't care
one whit about keeping up with the Joneses, you can live debt free AND
fly without breaking the bank.

Unless you have a family, as you say. Or perhaps you should abandon your
family in exchange for the celestial privilege of flying?

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