Expectations on my next
plane ride
First of all I expect on my
next plane ride is just “Nah, I am not interested at all” because of the fact
that riding on a plane is too much hassle for a guy like me. My last plane ride
was last year January maybe? And trust me, it is too much of a hassle. Like my
deodorant was confiscated and my brother’s deodorant was not. The heck? And my
father’s lotion was confiscated and just uses his name and the employee gave it
back. I was so disappointed about what happened because of the fact that I am
just a guy who does not have a name. I don’t have the power to talk back
because of the fact that I can’t and I won’t. So much for my old stories, back
to the topic. My last plane ride was so much fun. I can remember the memories
that I had, not on the airport though, those valuable memory in my life that I
truly appreciated in each and every moment of it. Those memories are etched,
saved and prized in my mind and no doubt about it. It is similar of going inside a time machine
conveying the same overpowering feeling that you had before when you first made
that valuable memory of your life. It is an inclination that I couldn't clarify
in just one basic word. It makes me feel invigorated and relaxing. It makes me
feel that life is so much fun and exciting because of the fact that it can make
me happy with just these simple memories that i have in my nineteen years of
existence. It also makes me understand how favored I am that I had experience
those sublime things that few man can only encounter because of the fact that
they don't have much time or it just they don't have any interest and money or
whatsoever. I still recall when I have my flight to Cebu with my father, mother
and my brother. We rode a taxi to the airport 6am in the morning because of the
fact that our flight is 11am. When we arrived at the airport it seems that our
luck is pretty damn bad because of the fact that our flight time is moved to
4pm because of the fact that the country is experiencing some weather issues somewhere
in Surigao. Many of us passengers were pissed but we have nothing else to do
but to accept the rescheduling and just wait for about 7 hours in the airport.
My memories in the airport was so pretty damn bad, I can’t even explain myself
of how disappointed and how pissed I am that day. It was just so boring sitting
on a chair with just looking at the clock whining down at it makes me feel so
irritated that I just wanted to burst and go home with my baggage. I tried make
myself asleep but hell yeah, I can’t sleep because of the fact that the airport
is so noisy. I bought my self a coffee to just relieve myself for a bit and
yes, it calmed me down a little but it isn’t enough to relieve all my
irritation. After a few hours or maybe exactly 5 hours of waiting at the
airport lounge. Finally, we can now enter the passengers lounge. We paid two
hundred pesos individually for our terminal fare. And thanks God that we
only have to wait 3 hours before we can ride my first plane ride. We ate lunch
at the passengers lounge. We checked in our baggage a second time and sucks my
deodorant got confiscated and my brother’s doesn’t like just I said a while
ago. I got pissed off again and just keep my temp low. And guess what like I
said a while ago my father’s lotion was confiscated also and he just uses he’s
name and the employee gave it back. When we settled down ourselves, I said to
my father that why didn’t you get my deodorant back if their security is just
like that? I was so pissed that I don’t want to ride the plane and go to Cebu.
I feel like I just want to go home and get the hell out of here. But again, I
controlled myself and played with my android phone. After a long wait, we can
now finally ride the plane. I felt nervous at first because of the fact that some
movies I saw in the past has this heart breaking stories which I don’t want to
happen. And on the other side I feel excited that I can watch my own city
at the sky, what would it looks like and if I get lucky I can see our own
house. While I ride on the plane I was on the front part of it. While we are in
the ground I took time to talk to God, the one who has the power to make myself
calm and make our trip safe so that we can arrive at our destination with ease.
And that time it has also a storm around Surigao and it makes me feel uneasy.
Because of us human beings, we destroyed our planet and make the climate
change. We humans called it global warming. Global warming, a gradual increase
in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to
the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide,
chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants. Source: Wikipedia. I know that storm
is a natural disaster but in the other hand there is a chance that the storm
was caused because of the fact that our planet was affected of global warming.
And it is really alarming because I have this uneasy feelings riding on the
plane that I can see the clouds color are very dark. I thought that the storm
could blow away our plane and worst case scenario plane crash and I don’t want
that to happen. So I prayed to God that make this trip safe and make myself
calm that I will no longer think about those bad kind of things that I had in
my mind. When the plane is ready to go, the crew members of the plane was
instructing us passengers what to do. If I recall it correctly they thought as
on how to use the oxygen and where does the paper bag was placed. They
instructed us on how to use it for emergency purposes when some technicalities
will occur in every individuals or in the plane. When the plane took off, my
heart felt so happy because of the fact that the plane is very fast. I had a
feeling that I want to try that speed it too using my own car. It felt exciting
and I felt thrilled and I know that I and some drivers has the same feelings
like me because of the fact that the plane was so incredibly fast. After the
plane flew, I felt so happy because of the fact that I am seated next to a
window and I can see Davao city up in the sky. My expectations were true that
they are so tiny that I can step on them. But after some seconds, I felt like
my jaw is on pain. I don’t know what happened but I took my chewing gum on my
pocket and started to chew it. I had on my mind that it can relieve the pain.
And yes, it works perfectly. I asked my mother why, and she answered to me that
she doesn’t know why. I think because it’s the air pressure when going up the
sky or maybe it’s just a coincidence that it was painful or maybe it’s just
because it was my first time and it doesn’t make sense. After the crew said
that we can took off our seatbelt I looked at on the window. It shocked me
because I didn’t see my expectations but I just saw a black clouds. I felt
uneasy again because of the fact that the country is experiencing some
rainstorm and probably a storm on Surigao area. I took my phone and listen to
my headset. Music can make me calm down sometime because of the fact that music
soothes your feelings. The soothing power of music is well-established. It has
a unique link to our emotions, so can be an extremely effective stress
management tool. Listening to music can have a tremendously relaxing effect on
our minds and bodies, especially slow, quiet classical music. This type of
music can have a beneficial effect on our physiological functions, slowing the
pulse and heart rate, lowering blood pressure, and decreasing the levels of
stress hormones. As music can absorb our attention, it acts as a distraction at
the same time it helps to explore emotions. This means it can be a great aid to
meditation, helping to prevent the mind wandering. Perhaps it feels like a
waste of time, not helping to achieve anything. But as we know, productivity
increases when stress is reduced, so this is another area where you can gain
vast rewards. It just takes a small effort to begin with. Some crews was
selling goods in the plane, I bought one bread and I don’t know what the bread
name is, I just simply took it from the crew and asked on how much and I paid
for it. When the crew was done selling, they had a game and I don’t remember
what was that game and they gave a prize to the winners. The prize was a
souvenirs like t-shirt maybe. It was fun because the girl crew there was so
pretty and I can’t take my eyes off her. And I was thinking if I can saw her
again on my next flight which is going home to Davao. But it doesn’t come true.
And it’s okay I was just appreciating her beauty and I don’t care much because
of the fact that I don’t have that big interest in her. When I was on my seat
watching the window, I wondered why does the wings move and it feels like it
will break because of the fact that how it moves so much. But luckily I
remembered one of my lessons that why does plane wings move because of the fact
that turbulence is the motion of air traveling up and down. This makes the
wings give that 'bouncing' effect. But airplane wings are extremely strong and
are made to flex. When you fly back and the plane is taking off look at the
wings as the plane accelerates. You'll notice that they will be lifting, and
this is completely normal. This is the lift motion taking effect and makes the
airplane fly. That is why wings are so flexible and they can definitely take a
beating from turbulence and still touch down safely. But so much for that,
after a thirty minutes of listening to music, more or less, it made me calmed
down and I saw some clear skies on my window. I saw the ocean and after a few
seconds I saw the islands. I don’t know if that is Cebu or not. But I feel
relieved because of the fact that God listened to my prayers and he could make
our trip safe and sound. It's great to reminisce about good memories of my
past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two
benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
Life makes recollections and recollections makes life. I am hoping to make more
great memory with the goal that I can make life out of it. I need to break free
from everything that chains me and I need to go past the outskirt of my life. So
I can make my life with no regrets and just like what they said “You only live
once”.
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