Somewhere someone!

After his well-deserved 15 day vacation at home, today I was dropping my brother for an early morning flight and I just had a few #4:00 am thoughts:

No wonder airports are such a sad-happy-weird-excited-scared mess?

Let me explain:

Somewhere someone is catching their first flight

Somewhere, someone is too tired to take their 1001st flight.

Somewhere someone is dropping their children off for a semester abroad to study

Somewhere someone has been waiting for 2 years for their kids to return home after being stuck for 2 years because of the pandemic.

Somewhere someone is embarking on a honeymoon

Somewhere, someone who got dumped by their partner is going away alone

Somewhere, there is an army jawan who is heading on an expedition that scares him and his family terribly.

Somewhere, someone is just too excited to get on a GOA trip that has kept them impatient for forever.

Somewhere someone's old grandparents are taking their very first flight and they don't know how the pilot takes left or right.

While somewhere someone has a newborn baby and is too scared to travel with her in the air

Somewhere someone is too excited to reach as a get away

Somewhere, someone is called to attend an emergency funeral.

And while I had these airport thoughts I realized that not only at the airport but elsewhere too,

Somewhere someone is too tired to wake up,

Somewhere someone cannot wait to get up and chase his or her dreams

Somewhere someone spends beautiful time with their special one

Someone somewhere just wants the stars to align so that they can meet their special someone

Somewhere someone rushes to work

Somewhere someone never returns home after work

Somewhere someone is cribbing for a small tear in their dresses

Somewhere, someone just wants someone to give them their old torn dresses

Somewhere someone was smiling looking at their newborn baby 

Somewhere, someone just cried after getting an injection in the hopes of a new baby!

Somewhere someone is just happy with their bosses and family

Somewhere someone just wants to escape their toxic bosses and unsupportive family

Somewhere someone shouts at the delivery boy for being late by two seconds

Somewhere someone thanks God for saving them from an accident by two seconds

Somewhere someone is whining about not having plans for the weekend

Somewhere someone simply hopes the weather will be favorable so they can catch a flight to see their loved ones for the weekend.

We all have been one or the other version of someone somewhere someday! How do we now shift to the other end of the spectrum to enjoy simpler things?

Life is at its core extremely simple

It is only a matter of peeling off the layers to get to its essence, the heart of all that matters

Being kind is easy

Sleep is easy

Friendship is easy

Taking a barefoot walk on the grass is easy

Chhole bhatura from your favorite stall is easy

Praying for someone is easy

Love is easy

Rather than aiming to be the person with it all, we should aim to be the person without it altogether! :)