Have you seen this situation before? I am sure you would have. The aircraft just touches down and stabilizes a bit, one gentleman will stand up immediately and fiddle with the overhead luggage compartment, as if he is going to jump out of the aircraft and rush to Mars or Venus immediately. Or, plenty others who will stand up, bending their neck uncomfortably when the plane stops and doors are yet to open. It will be a pitiful sight, gentleman with nice looking suits, with neck bent like chicken before the final moments. Or, a swarm of people rushing to the gate when the aircraft is announced and also attempting to jump the queue.
I would want to scream at that time, ‘Buddies, your seats are numbered, you have boarded, all of us are led in the same bus to the plane and for God sake, after checking in, the plane never leaves without you and however hard you try, you can never reach the destination earlier than the 300 others who are traveling with you’.
Or to the guy who stands up immediately, that we had been attempting this Mars sojourns for a couple of decades and are unsuccessful, so a few more minutes delay would not matter to either us the earthlings, or you the Superman.
I have never been able to understand this haste. Everybody, everywhere seems to be in haste. Totally lacking social skills, sneaking before you in a queue, jostling for plates in a buffet, honking at car stuck in signal!! All, with absolute nonchalance, with fleeting glances whether others notice this great act of heroism or shame.
Why and where are they rushing? To death? Or, are they trying squeeze out every living moment of their lives? Or that they are Bill Gates making billions of dollars every second?? Speed; haste everywhere, people driving like maniacs and pizza delivery boys. I am somehow very certain that they all rush to a destination and sit idle for a long period of time. Maybe they are rushing to catch up some rest!!!
Like it comes in Mahabaratha, if the Yaksha asks me what is the strangest thing in the world, it will be a no-brainer. The strangest thing in the world is the fact that these jokers stayed in their mother’s womb for 9 full months.
I am sure that they would have stood up and knocked at the door a million times trying to rush out by saying ‘ Hi there, I am in a state of urgency, can you please let me out, never mind it is only 6 months and am half-developed.
Next time, I meet such a person, I am going to walk up and encourage him. ‘Please do it, I know that you have very little time left in the world’.
I would want to scream at that time, ‘Buddies, your seats are numbered, you have boarded, all of us are led in the same bus to the plane and for God sake, after checking in, the plane never leaves without you and however hard you try, you can never reach the destination earlier than the 300 others who are traveling with you’.
Or to the guy who stands up immediately, that we had been attempting this Mars sojourns for a couple of decades and are unsuccessful, so a few more minutes delay would not matter to either us the earthlings, or you the Superman.
I have never been able to understand this haste. Everybody, everywhere seems to be in haste. Totally lacking social skills, sneaking before you in a queue, jostling for plates in a buffet, honking at car stuck in signal!! All, with absolute nonchalance, with fleeting glances whether others notice this great act of heroism or shame.
Why and where are they rushing? To death? Or, are they trying squeeze out every living moment of their lives? Or that they are Bill Gates making billions of dollars every second?? Speed; haste everywhere, people driving like maniacs and pizza delivery boys. I am somehow very certain that they all rush to a destination and sit idle for a long period of time. Maybe they are rushing to catch up some rest!!!
Like it comes in Mahabaratha, if the Yaksha asks me what is the strangest thing in the world, it will be a no-brainer. The strangest thing in the world is the fact that these jokers stayed in their mother’s womb for 9 full months.
I am sure that they would have stood up and knocked at the door a million times trying to rush out by saying ‘ Hi there, I am in a state of urgency, can you please let me out, never mind it is only 6 months and am half-developed.
Next time, I meet such a person, I am going to walk up and encourage him. ‘Please do it, I know that you have very little time left in the world’.
1 comment:
probably many of their first flight would have been by AIR DECCAN where you have to getin at the earliest to get the choice seat (Busla thundu pottu idam pidikra maathiri) and first chance to get out of the plane for a safe landing.
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