While sitting at the airport last week I realized, there are two kinds of people, those who love going to the airport and those who don’t.
I myself am a meeter, a person who meets. I arrive at the airport full of anticipation and excitement and nervous energy. I talk to complete strangers in my walking on cloud excitement and we giggle and look around giddily waiting on the ones we love.
I am also a people watcher, watching people at airports is a wonderful way and place to watch love stories unfold. We are all on display but feel that a curtain of secrecy is draped around us as we rush into the arms of our awaited loves.
It is sad that this generation has missed out on some of the airport dramatics of the up close and personal joy of hellos and tears of goodbye. They are unable to experience the joy of watching the plane land with only a sheet of glass between them and the plane and the excitement waiting for the terminal door to open and their love emerging, the first glances, the rush to meet each other and the whole experience of life before 9-11. They have missed out on the view of their loved ones plane cascading into the sky with the tears streaming down their faces as they wonder when they will see them again.
There is a scene in the movie When Harry Met Sally about meeting people at the airport. Rob Reiner, the movie’s director realizes that airport greetings can be romantic and magical and then can just as easily become a chore, beginning relationships verses ending relationships. I hope to always be one of the fortunate ones who meets the one I love at the airport with an excited fluttery feeling that that comes from the anticipation and expectations of what will be.
For me it is one time and place that hellos and goodbyes can be full of the both the dimestore novel kind of emotion or even the romantic love story drama. It is one place we are able to step out of our every day routine and experience the wonder and desire of a new love over and over again.
Who is to say that the romantic, giddy, new love feeling has to die – we can meet the one we love at the airport, hug them like we will never let them go and watch as the dream becomes real and the one we love becomes the one we don’t want to live without.
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