ride in an airplane

Maybe it’s just me, but my first experience of flying was…sheer bliss. I felt like a little kid, but I didn’t care. My sister was freaking out because she hates heights and my dad was reasoning with her. The irony of it was so strange. I just had to laugh at it all…

It was the split moment of magic that really was the spark: the takeoff. I think it had to do with the fact that there was a whole lot of…nothing-ness under neath me. But perhaps it’s not nothing at all?

It was overwhelmingly breathtaking (to say the least) to see all those big houses and roads that I call home start shrink to diminutive and insignificant specks of color. I’m floating through the clouds and hovering above the atmosphere thinking…what? How is this ‘normal’ and ‘everyday’ for some people? It was more like a miracle to me. 8-)

This made me think…do the people down there know? Do they know how flipping cool this is?? Haha…I figure that I’m probably one of the few who actually feel this way…but just in case, I now always wave to air vehicles as I see them passing over my head, just in case someone up there wants a ‘hello’. 8-)

The whole entire time I was pressed up against the window, trying to grasp the fact that that little tiny moving black speck was the plane’s shadow. It’s unfathomable to realize the correct correlations between the sizes. But again, maybe that’s just me…

So, most of you probably don’t see this the same way. But next time you’re on a plane, try to experience it through a child’s eyes. We take way too much for granted. It’s the tiny humdrum ‘unimportant’ things that make life worth living.

And thanks for reading, whoever you may be. 8-] I hope this has made you happy, laugh, or at least smile in some way or form.

I’ve always wanted to in ride in an airplane. They’ve always been so fascinating to me. I felt like I was missing out since so many people had ridden an airplane before and I was 20 and had never done it. This past November, I caught my first flight and I had the BEST experience. Granted, the VERY FIRST ride on the commuter flight to the connecting flight in Charlotte was a little scary at times. But after that, nooo problems. It was absolutely one of the greatest experience and by the time I was finished, I felt like a pro at flying. lol. Even though I was ever hardly in the air longer than 30 minutes and my total flight was 50 minutes.

taking the window seat is always best. its magical looking out to the clouds (:

it’s not like
...
exciting.

So, in my twenty-two years, I have never been on an airplane. I’d never even seen a real plane in person until about a year ago. Crazy, huh? I know, though, as soon as I’m on a plane, I will freak out so bad! As soon as the door closes, I’m going to panic. It’s likely that I will continue to do that for a while.

My boyfriend, however, has taken several flights all over the place. It’s likely that he’ll be going somewhere in a plane, and he’ll want me to come too. He’s going to Florida next year and has already told me he wants me to come (every other year he went, it was about being single and free to do whatever).. I’ve told him he’d have to drive and he didn’t seem completely against it.. but someday, I’d like to be able to air-travel with him :)

Same goes for being on a ship. The ocean scares the crap out of me lol

yeah..

The husband and I took our first flights May 11, 2005. We flew from our hometown to Atlanta, Georgia, then from there to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to stay with my parents for a few days. Then we did the reverse five days later. It was fun and I’m so dorky I got really excited when I had my first taste of airplane peanuts. They taste like peanuts. Imagine that.