Life in Capital Letters

celrod:

Two guys made this video after being stuck in an airport in Dallas, with there flight delayed overnight. Homeland security is wondering how they got away with this. 

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Though my nights stuck in airports were never as fun as this, I miss those nights. There’s something wonderful about being so completely overcome with exhaustion (the kind that won’t even let you feel bored) and then watching the sun rise over whatever-city or just the tarmac, then feeling so glorious inside when they finally call your plane. You’ll finally get to go to that place you’ve been dying to go! Also, because of nights like these, I’m bff with the St. Petersburg Russia airport and everyone who was sitting at the one tiny coffee shop there on that particular night.

When time seems to have stopped and you’re frozen in the agonizing wait with other people, suddenly frustration melts into laughs at humanity and our sad disconnected existence and other things that are only funny when you’re seeing them through the eyes of a group and not suffering through them alone .. as normally is the case.

And I think what I like about traveling (especially by myself) the most is that you have these moments where you’re so dependent on other people - for that cheaper taxi ride, for telling you what that food is that looks so bizarre, for giving you directions over and over until you understand them, for being patient while you painstakingly count out exact change in foreign currency, for chatting with you in a coffee shop in an airport so you don’t have to go insane from 48 hours without sleep and stare out the rain streaked windows by yourself - these moments that are so human, these moments that you’ve learned how to avoid in your own country, your own city.

And I think now that that must be one of the biggest reasons why children are so happy. They’re still dependent upon other human beings for their existence, and those connections sustain them in a way that adults grow to miss terribly without knowing what they’re missing..