I’ve concluded that Airline Flights are an extreme form of torture. Forget Gitmo. If you want to talk about cruel and unusual punishment, airplanes are your answer.
It’s not the flying thing that’s so bad, it’s the prolonged time in cramped spaces. I’m not a big guy by any means, but I’m having to bend all sorts of ways to do anything in this plane. Typing would require the skills of a contortionist to get anywhere near comfortable. I’m having to bend my neck to the right while bending the rest of my body to the left and holding my hands what should be straight out in front of me, but isn’t with all the turning I have to do to fit.
Obviously, the answer is to not type, but reading requires the same amount of dexterity, as does watching the in-flight movie from the window seat. It’s a no-win situation, really.
Speaking of reading, I went and dropped a large sum of my remaining money on three new books: ‘Everything Bad is Good For You’, ‘One Nation Under Therapy’ and ‘Cracking the Million Dollar Code’.
I’ve already started into the first one, which tells how our modern ‘junk’ culture is actually leading to increased complexity in thinking. The author proposes that escaping into the world of video games is actually helpful for our thinking processes, not a waste of time. It’s not a bunch of mirrors and smoke either. His point does have merit and is presented very well. I’d recommend this book to anyone.
Well, I don’t think I will be cruel enough to my body to put it through another paragraph, so we’ll just leave it at that. Airplane rides suck. I’ve got another two hours to go…
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