You sound perfectly sane to me. LOL!!
When I was a kid, my godfather had an air charter service and would take us flying in his planes on weekends. I loved it.
Then for no reason that I’ve ever been able to come up with, I suddenly became terrified about flying around the age of 20.
So on the ground I stay on the rare occasions I get to go somewhere. That’s ok. A lot of beautiful scenery to admire along the way.
Another weird sounding technology we use all the time is the pneumatic tire. Nobody would have thought mere rubber enough to carry the weight of heavy vehicles, that is, until good vulcanization was developed.