Life is a Journey

Delhi Airport, so called fancy airline of Kingfisher (yes the same one... famous for air-hostesses than for flights running on schedules). The flight to Pune is delayed by zillion hours. I am looking at the swanky new Airport, now managed by GMR instead of GOI – privatization has its own advantages. The little rough remarks at the King First club lounge - I do not know if the short form was supposed to mean something, it is named (!) King f - earn me a free coffee and quiet corner to charge my laptop battery. The air hostesses are still the same…

I wonder how much time I must have spent this year at the airports, more than in hospital for sure… and this is with two months of compulsory vacation. God only knows what it would have been, if not for my health. In this year alone, my Jet Privileges (Jet Airways frequent flyer program) got upgraded. Couple of hotels in India made me their platinum member (ironically, one added more points for staying at Mumbai for 4 days in row for nuclear medicine scanning). I think the frequent flyer programs, hotel membership cards, all are pointing to the important fact of the life, that many so called achievements are not particularly beneficial… oh wait no that’s not what I meant. I meant the fact that life is a journey and you are here more as a passenger rather than permanent resident. There are very few life forms that have been around for a while, like Sharks or Crocodiles. Homo Sapiens were never that lucky. Blame it on fragile body, susceptibility to diseases, ability to think and like all other animals weakness for air hostesses wearing short red skirts.

People start trusting these theories in earnest. Many religious scriptures pointed to this fact, Hindu one’s most than any other. For obvious reasons, transient life theories helped priests prosper so clearly it was more popular than rest of the theories.

In my little philosophical world life is a journey on a messed up flight, it never gets started right, never takes where you really wanted to go – gets diverted mid-way, has many shallow attractions, and get you only the mileage points which you can not use for barter or cash. Like all glorious things that it brings along, once you get the boarding card, you never know where you are headed. So life is a journey, but make sure you are headed in right direction regardless of the flaunting beauty of the check-in person.