Miss and Mystery!
Have you seen anybody relaxed for missing the flight? If No you missed the chance to see one! ME.
I missed the connecting flight for LA from Hongkong. What happened was all strange. I don’t know how it happened, it’s a MYSTERY! Probably there is more than one reason for this. And this is the answer one gives when the hormones take over the control of brain. I don’t even which hormone took over my control. But the feeling after missing the flight probably took me to the state of mind I have never experienced before.
I feebly remember that there are 4 states of mind. ALPHA, BETA, DELTA, THETA. All the time human beings are awake they work in the BETA state of mind. ALPHA state of mind is in all innocence of a child which I have no more and in state the of meditation (which I TRY to do) and DELTA is when we are in deep sleep, and THETA the frequency of mind during early stages of sleep.
I think I realized what is a ALPHA state of mind today probably! I am not sure if I should title it but YES it was worth missing the flight ;)
My journey started in lot of hurry under lot of worry. So the two “rry”’s started with me to mess up anything on this journey. I hope that ends with missing the flight.
When I got down at Hongkong, I had to rush to find where GATE 46 is! I had woken up from sleep and badly wanted to brush but still the instinct kept saying go near designated gate and then take break. Habits make you slave, so I was. I could not stop the feeling to brush the teeth. It overtook my instinct and I entered the rest room near GATE 38 to take break. Added to this was another habit of trusting the time shown by wrist watch! The mind is set to 5 minutes ahead of MindTree working hours and often brain forgets that fact. I kept my ear on the announcements going on but I was far from GATE 46 which I realized too late. Then when I got out of the rest area, I was kinda enjoying the magnanimous airport trusting my watch; then incidentally I saw big advertisement from Rolex and it appeared to be showing the local time which was 4:00 PM. I was supposed to report by 3:50. Immediately I saw the status of CX882 and it said LAST CALL. I performed a sprint race to reach to GATE 44 where there was security stopping from anybody going further, I begged her to do something as it was very important for me to reach Tucson on 7th. But the gate was closed the flight door was closed; all the doors to the flight CX882 were closed for me.
The moment I realized I missed my flight was very disturbing. I knew the expenses of reaching late to Tucson. These tensed moments lasted till I went to the contact desk to find out about the next flight details. At last I got the flight on the same night to LA.
After all the running around, I relaxed to see what was on my mind. Probably to find how did I miss the flight. It was blank. It was a state where thoughts didn’t linger even when I forced them to. How I wish life continues in that state where I felt so relaxed. There was nothing worrying me. All the tension which I underwent was washed away. There were no thoughts about my parent’s health, project status; I don’t know where they got lost. Probably the fact of missing the flight took away the entire plight!
So guys MISS a flight next time when you are on journey with hops, it may turn out to be good experience!!!