Delhi/Amsterdam/Toronto
Airhead
My day was maximized in the air. Many people today, in fact, spend a good length of time in flight. It never used to be that way. In the days of yore, those seafaring ventures
we read about were for the adventurous.
I believe Europeans especially took to the vast stretches of ocean
purposefully to explore and conquer.
“Queen Mary,” “Blue Nose,” and “Titanic” are names of famous and daring
vessels that journeyed incredible nautical miles. Of course, there’s the “Mayflower” which brought
over the pilgrims to the U.S.’s east coast.
The infamous Columbus had his largest of ships, the “Santa Maria.”
It’s all history.
For thousands of years, our indigenous
people sported more modest boats—canoe and kayak—and stuck more to rivers and
lakes for sustenance purposes—food and travel.
Let’s see now, most of us homo sapiens
thrived on land travel and reaping what bounties the soil provided. There never was an account of ancients
expending time in the air unless you probe into the stories of aliens, UFO’s, and
so forth.
In the Vedas, there are plenty of tales
giving accounts of vimanas, aerial
devices moved by higher beings from another era. The sky was the destination of mystics, some
good and some bad.
That’s mythology, according to some. Or is it history or non-fiction, and still
going on?
In any event, my travel in the air was
alright, except the middle-aged person behind me, in conversation with fellow
passenger, had the foulest tongue. He
was a real AIRHEAD.
May the Source be with you!
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