Continuing the chain of thought with my type A behavior, if you thought the Calgary flight is the only flight I missed..you be down right wrong!!! On the other hand I have gotten lucky more than once, in being the last person in to the plane….This happened recently, I was flying from San Jose to Seattle. As usual when I left for airport in the morning, I thought I had all the time in the world, and I can afford a little luxury, take my time and so on. This despite a friendly reminder from a buddy of mine to leave early. I reach the airport and guess what, big lineup for security checkup..people snaking all the way up to the curbside ..I started thinking, where the heck are these people going, I was expecting a smooth sailing here…

Finally reached the departure gate and I hear the announcement “last and final call for Niraj Prasad..”, my heart starts to beat little faster, I am almost there, but can I make it? Actually there was one other guy running late, so that made two of us. The air hostess at the gate, radioed the pilot can he take these two (latecomer) guys? To our luck the pilot said yes and I literally found myself running into the tarmac! I expressed my thanks to the staff to let me in…literally minutes prior to the take off. …And then there was that other time, yours truly had to catch a plane from San Francisco to New York, by the time I reached the gate and asked the staff, the plane was already on the run way making its final run

Well that’s life and if one plane is missed , another one will come, what is the hurry…right? It is far more important not to miss the crucial planes in your life and I don’t mean in literal terms but in figurative terms..in that sense plane is just a microcosm of life…you don’t let the plane get away from you… similarly you don’t let the life get away from you. In that vain, I would like to add lets not let the life drift away, let us do something meaningful, something worthwhile, something you will be fondly remembered for..long after you are gone…agreed?

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Continuing the chain of thought with my type A behavior, if you thought the Calgary flight is the only flight I missed..you be down right wrong!!! On the other hand I have gotten lucky more than once, in being the last person in to the plane….This happened recently, I was flying from San Jose to Seattle. As usual when I left for airport in the morning, I thought I had all the time in the world, and I can afford a little luxury, take my time and so on. This despite a friendly reminder from a buddy of mine to leave early. I reach the airport and guess what, big lineup for security checkup..people snaking all the way up to the curbside ..I started thinking, where the heck are these people going, I was expecting a smooth sailing here…

Finally reached the departure gate and I hear the announcement “last and final call for Niraj Prasad..”, my heart starts to beat little faster, I am almost there, but can I make it? Actually there was one other guy running late, so that made two of us. The air hostess at the gate, radioed the pilot can he take these two (latecomer) guys? To our luck the pilot said yes and I literally found myself running into the tarmac! I expressed my thanks to the staff to let me in…literally minutes prior to the take off. …And then there was that other time, yours truly had to catch a plane from San Francisco to New York, by the time I reached the gate and asked the staff, the plane was already on the run way making its final run

Well that’s life and if one plane is missed , another one will come, what is the hurry…right? It is far more important not to miss the crucial planes in your life and I don’t mean in literal terms but in figurative terms..in that sense plane is just a microcosm of life…you don’t let the plane get away from you… similarly you don’t let the life get away from you. In that vain, I would like to add lets not let the life drift away, let us do something meaningful, something worthwhile, something you will be fondly remembered for..long after you are gone…agreed?