Walk in the sky
For a change my recent walk didn’t involve London, or any other city. Was lucky to get a great seat and amazing weather on a recent flight. In general I don’t have anything against flying but don’t love it either. I can’t help thinking about dying whenever we take off (that’s when the probability of dying is the biggest – once you’re up there things rarely end tragically). By the way, dying in a plane accident is not as unlikely as people say it is. All depends on how often you fly. If you make one car trip and one plane trip in your life the chances of dying are way higher on a plane. It’s the low frequency of flying that makes it a less likely event for an average person. But not for someone who flies very often. Think about it next time you’re taking off – especially in front seats (highest death rate).
Coming back to my astrowalk. The most amazing thing is the experience of infinity. Probably the most palpable experience of infinity you can have without doing magic mushrooms. I mean infinity, not space. Though I have never done it I guess skydiving is not really about infinity, it’s about movement in space. So is bungee jumping. Flying above the clouds without being able to clearly say where sky begins is just beautiful. Nothing substitutes the experience, but photos are still better than words, so here goes.
It reminded my of El Salar in Bolivia – one of the most amazing places on Earth. Maybe the reason why it’s so breathtaking is exactly because it is like flying in a sense that one can really feel infinity. There is simply nothing on the horizon.
I consider the walk to end once we went below the clouds again – yet another spectacular sight.
Unfortunately, all things come to an end. Even infinity.
few correction:
Slawku forgot to add that he got great seat because I unfortunately swapped with him. (First I was seating close to the window).
I also was thinking about dying but dying because of the stench of Polish male passenger seating close to me (not Slawku!).
I have also experienced the infinity but a bit different one – infinity of smell of polish shower.
[...] long time ago I blogged about the experience of infinity and titled the post ‘Walk in the Sky’. Now, the post’s title seems ominously prophetic as I did experience such a walk just a few [...]