Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Everything is priced at its Perception

Three brothers were travelling by air. Two of them were frequent flyers while the eldest one was flying for the first time.


"I just hope that I get the window seat", the second brother thought. "I can comfortably sleep throughout the flight, placing my head against the walls" he thought as he saw his elder brother moving ahead. "... and the best part is that I don't have to bother myself when someone wants to get up.", he concluded.

"I just hope that I get the aisle seat. Window seats feel like a corner and middle seats are for prisoners!!", the youngest brother thought. "The aisle is the most happening place!! You can easily access the overboard compartments and chat with the attendants too!!"

"The stars would look so big and bright", the elder brother thought as he took the window seat. He signaled the youngest one to sit besides him."

After ten minutes, the elder brother starred outside the window with a glee, watching the runway lights disappear. He was slightly bothered about the fact that the attendant showed him how to open the emergency exit while landing on water. "Why would they land on water?? We are not going to some tiny island!! How stupid!", he thought without noticing that his brothers sat folding their arms, one because of disappointment and the other because of a lack of choice.

After a while, the elder brother looked outside the window. There were no stars, let alone the bright and big ones!! He wanted to change his seat, so he looked at the youngest brother who was pretending to be asleep. So he looked at the second brother and suggested that he should switch places with him. As he tried to get up, a fellow passenger bumped into him, forcing the magazine in his hand to fall down. "I hate the aisle seat, how inconvinient", he thought. But he was happy that he finally got his window seat!!

The youngest brother realized that he once again missed the aisle seat and cursed his luck. As his brothers exchanged seats, he went back to his disappointed position... arms folded!! The second brother ignored the dark void outside the window, leaned against the wall and went to sleep with a smile.
The elder brother was getting upset as people 'pushed' him everytime they got up. "How uncivilized", he thought taking it personally and regretting his decision of exchanging seats. He looked at his brothers who were asleep by now.

After an hour, the youngest brother shook him a bit with an excuse to go to the washroom. The elder brother was annoyed because he had to get up. But his mood changed as soon as he realised that the middle seat was vaccant. He quickly took the seat and felt like he was a king sitting on a throne with his two brothers on his side!!

When the youngest brother returned, he could not believe his eyes! "The Aisle Seat", he thought and sat with a smile on his face. It didn't matter to him that he only had one armrest for himself. He watched the 'live space' and exchanged smiles with fellow passengers and attendants.
As the plane reached its destination and everyone started walking out, the two brothers took a quick halt in the business class. "I love this seat", said the youngest one pointing at the aisle seat. His brothers walked away just smiling at him. "What's wrong with these two??", they all thought as the walked towards the door.

"I could see the sky so clearly", thought the eldest brother wishing that he could get a seat inside the cockpit while returning!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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gauresh said...

Thank you... I mean to write more.
Just not getting a good topic to write, so I keep posting... passing thoughts and random conversations!!