Starting this article at nearly 18000 fts in the air with a realization of bump. While traveling back, we encountered turbulent weather (though not for long) with some portion of it was a bumpy ride. Suddenly I noticed the passenger next to me took out his wallet and started to see the picture of (probably) his wife and kid. It didn’t take me much time to understand what must be going in his mind. Of course not all, but a portion of it. Further while we were having a bumpy ride, a mother in the next row was tightly hugging to her child. I suddenly recalled about a conversation that I overheard when a passenger of my flight telling his kid about the places they will be visiting in Delhi, while they are sitting next to me at the airport lounge. And here was I thinking what I will loose if this nose dive. The answers I got in my brain was not encouraging of course - nothing much accept of not been able to see someone whom I always wanted to see.
While all sort of things starts coming to my mind. One thing that struck me at that time was the fact that all the passenger or people, sitting in this aircraft are not my friends, not my co-workers, not my enemy, certainly not the people who I knew before entering into the aircraft or who I would be knowing after I exist the aircraft. It was peculiar to know that all the people who are accompanying me or may be, I am accompanying them are at the same platform or phase of destiny. Certainly I remembered the crash of Air France A332 over Atlantic on June 1st 2009. I was sure the things out there were not much different in terms of people destiny’s getting align with those who they have never met, accept that I came back to post my thoughts,
It also gave me thought that if something happens here; people may never discover my body, same way as the case with the Air France with no survivors. I was over shadowed by the sense of calmness with a pinch of laughter from my thoughts that if this (aircraft) goes down, there will be a long Q at the door of heaven or hell, which ever is applicable for me.
With the same notion I carried out loud with my thinking and touching on incidents that had similar effect of alignment of people’s destiny. Be it the Uphar cinema tragedy, Titanic or any other. With gripping emotions I realized that all the destinies have now been aligned between us or may be most of us. Now we cannot term ourselves as someone who is powerful, rich, Hindu, Muslim, Sikhs, Christian, and so on. We certainly cannot plea that I am so younger or older to see my death; I am in process of giving a birth or going home to see my baby for the very first time.
We all are same, destined to be aligned with our life for those two and half hours, without ever having a clue that we exist in the world before buying the ticket of that flight. Another interesting thing worth noting was people also started with their prayers. We might say that they were going to their respective gods but then the request was more or less the same, going upwards in the heaven.
I have to admit that while articulating this I cannot be termed as a brave sole, but certainly one who saw and learnt a new aspect of our lives when my destiny got aligned with people whom I didn’t or will never know (probably).
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