02/09/18
3rd year of university, travelling back for the new year.
It’s a long flight, so I usually try to get some shut-eye, but you know what it is like to sleep on an airplane, you have to steal pockets of time throughout the flight to nap, the rest of the time is just restless stirrings. Very rarely do you get to sleep the entire flight away, and when you do, you feel as if you’ve stolen some comfort, from what’s always supposed to be a tedious journey.
So I’m lapsing in and out of consciousness, eating up the hours as best I can, and I decide to rest my head against the window, perhaps it would be more comfortable. (spoiler alert, it’s never more comfortable to change sleeping positions, as much as your brain tries to convince you that it is).
This turns out to be a mistake, because now my left arm is falling asleep. Sleep has now begun to elude me, and I make my peace with the situation at hand and give up this frivolous attempt, happy that I had at least been able to sleep a portion of the journey. Now I’d have to keep myself busy for the next couple of hours, so I decide to open my window shade, and in the process, blind the entire row of compatriots travelling alongside me in my row. At first, it was nothing, just haze and sky, and gradually the clouds began to thin and then thicken, and then shape and shift, into Stratus than Altostratus, eventually forming Cumulus and my favourite, Cumulonimbus clouds.
Pondering over how much of the Earth has so much beauty that no one ever sees, and how much of it we take for granted, I was lost in my own thoughts. All of a sudden, from within the clouds, a black form emerges, and then another, and then another. Was I watching too much, Harry Potter? Dementors don’t attack at altitude, they attack Hogwarts bound steam trains. I rubbed my eyes, blinked my mind back into existence and squinted for a better view.
The blackness piercing through, were mountain tops.
The Himalayas.
The tallest, most vast, mountain range in the world, in all its glory.
Indeed, a sight to behold.
(I had a shot of the mountain range, but I liked this one better. The peak of a single mountain is located mid left ⬆️)
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