High Flyer or Cheap Seats?

Most of you are unaware that metaphorically speaking at least, your journey is nearing its end. The transports are now being boarded in readiness for departure to your final destinations.

Some of you are calmly slipping into spacious accommodations in First Class. Reclining your seats and stretching your legs, adjusting the dimmer switch, the climate control, selecting a movie and placing your order for dinner. The stewards are plumping up pillows and plying you with cool sophisticated beverages; because you are the ones with the Golden ticket! You have claimed your Sovereignty. Mastered your manifestation skills and are now able to manifest your heart’s desire. Your Heaven on Earth.

Others of you are not so practiced at this time. You are squeezing yourselves clumsily down the narrow isle, bumping and knocking knees, as you drag baggage you are so sure you still need, to stuff into overhead compartments, rather than just letting it go. You must pass First Class, forgo the plump white pillows and the extra leg room to shoe-horn yourselves into cheap seats, satisfied at least in the knowledge that you can claim the window that you reserved earlier.

Then there are those who’s complaints can be heard reverberating throughout the cabin as they are being forcibly separated from their belongings which will go in the hold, and sound as though they are losing a limb! Now they will have to suffer the consequence of poor planning, and the mental anguish not having what they think they need immediately at hand.

Some are feeling the wrenching of being torn away from family and friends, to be made to take the one vacant seat that remains over the wing – near the emergency exit - for the entire journey; Wedged between a portly gent with nasal congestion on one side, and a woman who endlessly knits on the other, ‘clackerty-clack’.

At least you are aboard. You are not stuck in traffic, or at the check-in desk clutching a fistful of outdated documents, or worse still – reporting a lost ticket.

Look around you and see who is with you. Is it who you expected it would be at this time? Or, if you look through your portal can you see the faces of those who didn’t wake up in time pressed against the window of the departure lounge? Too late and a dollar short.

Your flight has been given ‘three greens’ by the Tower, and the engines are ramping up.

Is this the way you would have it? Are you already saying to yourself, next time I will be sure to do this, or that? There is no ‘next time’. This is it! If there is something you could have done differently that would have made this experience more enjoyable for you, do it now! Begin to make your preparations. Leave no stone unturned. No word unsaid. There will be no going back.