I should start a new column about airports.

I’m in the airport again. Yep, buying my internet access along with exorbitantly priced food. Can you believe that a Nathan’s hot dog meal is $8? FOR A HOT DOG AND SOME FRIES! Ridiculous. Fortunately they are the second best hot dog I have ever had.

When I left Richmond this morning it was raining. I could be cute and say the city was sad to see me go (I did almost cry when I hugged my dad – Mom couldn’t even go to the airport because she would have lost it). Really it was just that the air was too saturated with water vapor and it just had to release it.

It did look pretty depressing for a while, all gray and droopy. As we entered the clouds, I began to gain excitement at the anticipation of bursting through the cover into the sky. Then I thought it drew a really good illustration.

We usually associate sorrow, suffering, depression with rainy days. I think it might even be scientific fact or something. That’s usually where the association ends, though. How short-sighted we are! Yes, sometimes we go through periods where all we see causes us sorrow or suffering. Things are generally pretty clear, though partly hidden for lack of direct light. We don’t even take the time to consider what life is like above the clouds. Going *through* clouds is even worse because you can’t see a thing. I always get a tinge of fear that some other plane has a heading that we are in and we’ll collide. Once you pass through into the breathtaking brilliance of blue skies, you look down and instead of seeing the depressing world, you see a soft, comfortable bed that you can rest on.

It’s all about perspective.

-j

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