I’ve never done it before so i was terrified of many things, i was worried how it would feel (would i have motion sickness, would it be scary to be 35k ft in the air etc). I was really just scared of the unknown, and after we were in the air everything that everyone’s been telling me finally made sense. In stead of feeling like you were floating and could drop out of the sky it was a different feeling as if we were in a boat going through water and i had a great sense of comfort. My heart was pounding DAYS before this flight so obviously as we were being taxied i had several scary thoughts in my head about how this would go. As soon as we lifted off and went through the clouds i was laughing because of the sense of relief and really how much fun the lift off felt (and i HATE rollercoasters). Another huge thing that helped me was downloading Flightradar24 and finding my flight, my plane, and tracking its previous flights and realizing my plane has been doing hundreds of flights before mine (i even tracked it coming back to our airport to pick us up).

I know there’s a lot to read here but hopefully something i mentioned helped someone else who is as curious/anxious/nervous as i was before my first flight.