Rop's Reflections

Flying can be such a pain. To travel from country A to country B, you often have to ask for a permission (visa) in advance, fill out forms, be treated like a potential criminal, and pay a ridiculous fee for that permission application unless you were born in a big, powerful country like the US. Then, you buy expensive ticket.

Then you have to go to the airport to be treated like a potential criminal again. You can’t just show your ticket and walk on the plane. You have to set aside time to go through security checkpoints, where you are told to take off your belt, wallet, watch, shoes, keys, cellphones, laptop, just to gather them and redress yourself again.

Then you wait for your flight, in a crowded airport where food is way overpriced but you are stuck and can’t do anything about it. You flight may be delayed, changed, or canceled. Then once you get on the plane, you sit in an uncomfortable seat for hours.

And after all that, there is a possibility of accident, like the terrible one that happened yesterday in Madrid. There are on average over 10 fatal plane accidents each year.

You have to deal with all that, just to move from country A to country B.