I am thinking about how to start new entries. I have been sitting here for about 20 minutes trying to figure out an opening line. Should I address whoever is reading this by saying hello? Something like: Hi there! Or should I start immediately with my topic? God this blog thing is harder than I thought. I think I will not say HI THERE! Sounds lame… Whatever, I will put this issue in the box where I keep things to be decided later.
Ok so last time I said I was going to talk about planes. Maybe I should not have done that because I feel like now I HAVE to write about that and I do not like to HAVE to do things. I mean, it´s not like I don´t want to explore that topic, I really do, but what if I had something more important or more interesting to say? As I write this I realize I have done two paragraphs and I still have not said ANYTHING remotely interesting or important so I guess I should stick with planes after all.
So there I was, on an 8 hour flight from Miami to London, hoping. Every time I get on a plane I believe wonderful things are about to happen. Yes, yes, I know what you are thinking, I watch way too much TV. It’s true, I do, and I believe that the film industry has completely ruined me by filling my head with dumb and unrealistic expectations. OK back to my silly plane story. I was sitting on my aisle seat, (I hate window seats because if the person next to you falls asleep that’s it, you are trapped forever) thinking: This is it! My dream man will come and sit next to me, there will be some turbulence and suddenly we will hold hands, we will look at each other , fall in love and live happily ever after (ok, I´m pathetic sometimes so what?). So I start looking at the line of people walking towards their seats, one by one they walk through the aisle as I wait with hope for my potential life partner. And then, finally, someone approaches, a fifty something year old man. Realizing I was going to be his companion for the duration of the flight his face lightens up while I think: ok maybe next time. Don´t get me wrong, I do not judge people by their age! This man also had a wedding ring, and as I saw him I thought he probably had a daughter who is my age so I immediately gave up on the idea. With my dreams crushed I turned my attention to the selection of movies I had, put my headphones on and started watching a romantic comedy, no less. Suddenly I feel this energy coming towards me; I turn my head to the right, and see this man looking intensely at me, and he says: “I’m afraid of flying would you mind talking to me? “. So there I was, with a big dilemma, either this man was a freak trying to pick me up with this stupid line, or he was indeed afraid and needed someone to talk to him. I finally decide to comply because if this was true and the man needed me, and I refused, then for sure bad karma would come my way, and I don´t need any more bad karma, I have enough for this lifetime and the next. We engage in random conversation, he was indeed married and had three daughters, one of them almost my age by the way. Turns out this man was quite alright, he told me really nice and insightful stories and made my flight feel shorter. I didn’t fall in love, (thank God cause that would have been complicated), but I did have a great time.
I had a point with this story, I swear, but I totally forgot what it was. I think it was something like sometimes you expect something and then life sends something completely different your way. It might seem annoying but I believe you have to give it a chance because it might surprise you. I have sat besides dozens of people, people who talk too much, people who didn´t talk at all, people who snore, all kinds of people, and maybe just because it wasn’t what I expected I closed myself, and by doing this I might have missed on something special, like moments, or friendships. It’s not really a story about a plane; it’s a story about life. The universe doesn’t always give you what you want, but I’m sure it gives you what you need. Maybe I´m not ready for happy endings. But I was ready to help someone who needed me. So there, that’s my point, be open to life, to what it sends your way cause you never know what you might find. Oh and never lose hope, keep flying, maybe someday, we will find the perfect plane ride, in the meantime, just enjoy whatever happens.
Ok plane topic done… I really want to write about something else, but I won´t say what it is this time… cause tomorrow something incredible and amazing could happen and I will probably want to write about that more, you see life is like this, you just never know.
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