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Thoughts On An Airplane


Its night time and I’m on an airplane and when I look down, all I can see are specks of illumination, a sign of life.

If I were to exaggerate and speak, there is no square metre of land that is accessible to us and not owned by us.  By us, I mean humans.

Individually we may or may not own a lot of land. But if you see it amongst us humans, we have huge portions of it. Like, huge. So large they can house millions, hold cities, metropolises.

From above, the land looked so vast. And the vastness did not fail to fascinate me. It was as if an enchanting spell. So much that I'm yet to comprehend. I have to admit you get a better view from a height.

Okay following this statement, it might go a little on the crazy side. By crazy I mean my hopelessly imaginative side.

Flying over cities, like I said, I see specks of light. They look like stars in the night sky. Sure they don't twinkle. But there's spots of light in the dark. Just like we see in the sky.

Apologies, but a contradiction. Is it just me or I saw the lights twinkling. Its beautiful. I'm sure I wasn't fantasizing. It could be someone turning off their lights for the night, or the light shining through branches of trees. But they did seem twinkling.

If you see from the airspace, the regions where airplanes fly in, the stratosphere, you see the sky both ways.

Crazy isn't it?

It seems like the sky is both ways. Embedded with stars.

Comments

  1. AshwiniJune 1, 2019 at 6:49 PM

    You have a way with words

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  2. UnknownJune 1, 2019 at 7:18 PM

    Sometimes the journeys are more memorable than the destinations , and nights are more colorful and alive than the day.

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  3. UnknownJune 1, 2019 at 11:26 PM

    Lovely description. Detailed and imaginative ..keep writing
    ~r

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  4. AnonymousMarch 16, 2020 at 11:11 PM

    Hello. My name is Hanna. My blog is edublogs.mjds.org/hboland20
    I also agree with how you feel about people not owning anything.
    Do you blog on here on your own or are you required to?
    Have a nice day :)

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  5. AnonymousApril 6, 2020 at 8:05 PM

    Hi, My name is Shira. When I went on a plane for the first time I felt the same way as you. I think airplanes are so kind of majestic. On an airplane you get to see the world a lot differently.

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