The Terminal
Posted by richardcjy on February 11, 2007
Now I am waiting for my next flight at Newark /Liberty Airport. I think it’s probably a good time to pick up my unfinished draft post about the terminal.
I first want to write this post after my crazy and tiresome trip from Toulouse to Paris CDG to Tokyo NRT to Taipei CKS to Los Angeles LAX to Raleigh/Durham. (within 48 hours) During the intervals between my destinations, I often grab a copy of The Economist or sports news for a while, and then proceed to desperately trying to get the Internet access to check emails and work on my stuffs. I kept wondering that if this would be my life in the future 20 years. Imagine a young business attorney frequently travel across the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean. This sounds so successful, doesn’t it?
When I was a little boy and did not have too many chances to fly. It’s exciting to get into the terminal. I happily looked out the window for the incredible airplanes. When you fly more and more often, you still feel fun when you arrive a new airport, but more frequently, you begin to need to work in the terminal. I now don’t think this is in any way fancy or success. Real successful people don’t do this; they either have personal jets of something similar to Air Force One. It’s us, typical mid-class professional workers, who work for them doing things like this.
Seems lots complaints, but don’t get me wrong. Generally speaking, I still enjoy flights; especially fly to a new place I’ve not yet been to.
I have more to say about the terminals, but the boarding time is approaching. Maybe I will talk more in my next stop in the Airport.
