Out of the window

It is not unusual to see a lot of traffic in the air as I live close to the San Jose International airport. Out of my window, I have watched so many planes decorate the night sky with colorful lights while they make their way in and out of their designated terminals.

Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and as I was gazing at the sky in the serenity of the night, I saw this little plane flashing it’s way towards the North. I began to think, if there were any of my acquaintances travelling in that plane. When I was a child, I used to innocently wave hands at the planes I rarely saw, back then in India in the thought that somebody was watching me. I was ignorant of the fact that anything on the land is hardly visible to someone travelling in the plane. As I thought about it, I recalled how I used to watch out of the window to catch glimpses of the land both during day and night travel by flight. I thought perhaps someone, probably kids in the same thought lines may be waving hands at my flight too.

How many people have I thought of while I watched out of my window? I don’t wave hands anymore since I now for sure know they can’t see me, yet on the same thought lines someone on the flight might be thinking they’re being watched from out of the window somewhere. I wonder what would be the actual number of them that have been my acquaintances for real and of those whom I've thought of without even knowing them! To that matter I must have thought of people across the world without actually knowing them by just watching out of the window. Isn’t this amazing?

In many movies (typically known as Bollywood or Tollywood) we see, how the girl in the lead goes round and round in search of her guy who is actually in the close proximity but doesn’t find him until she reaches a point that the director has already decided and arranged for their meet up. There is so much tension built up among the audience who do not know if the girl and the guy would even succeed in meeting until then since they get to see what the girl in the movie does not.

In real life too, this seems to happen quite often not necessarily between family members, friends and close acquaintances by the courtesy of the cell phone communication but between the friends, co-workers or even a spouse to be! The director of life, would have decided to arrange for the meet up at a particular time and until that time, we would be going on and on in the maze that he has set for us.

A future friend to be may be sitting next to you or loitering around in the neighborhood, not knowing that at some time in future (may vary from days, months to even years) he/she would turn out to be a very important person in your life and vice-versa!

However, watching out of the window is worthwhile since we have thought of that someone for real without actually knowing them even before they came into our lives!