The movie Love Actually talks about them as the most happy place because of all of this love that floats around there, between the goodbyes and the reunions.
For me, who have already spent quite some time in those numerous terminals, this theory could not be more accurate. Airports have this kind of singular joy about them. This wonderful smile of a kid who is flying for the first time, the palpable exitation of a family that is going off on vacations far away from their home, the love words of a dad to his child, in a hesitating english from an airport in Brazil through phone to Europe, the conversation was really simple but touched me up to giving me tears in my eyes as I was just eating at the other table... It must have been a mixture of how much I missed my own family while dreaming to show them all of what I was seeing on my travel, to know that I wasn't gonna see them for a few more months, and simply the beauty and the simplicity of this conversation, the emotion in the dad's voice as he is going to meet his child the next day.
And here I am, always alone in those airports. When I am not running to catch a plane, I walk around in the alleys, looking for something that looks tasty and not too expensive (for an airport...), or I just sit down and observe. The truth is that I love being alone in airports and airplanes. They are my moments, just for me. I dream, listen to music, sometimes I sleep, listen to people, I look at them, they sometimes piss me off and sometimes fascinate me. Once in the plane I keep my nose stuck by the window from take off to landing, always with the same smile on my face. That's also the moment when, alone, I can allow myself to feel that sadness that sometimes fills me up when I leave a place.
Yes, airports are fascinating places. Maybe this text doesn't touch you, maybe you don't get where I am going with that. But today I have been fascinated by this little girl, who was staring out of the plane's window with the same wide smile as mine. The fact that we were both as much fascinated by the sky although we might have had fifteen years apart, anabled us to share a smile, this special shared look between two people who know what the other is feeling.
Today I have been touched by this man who was saying on the phone "I love you, I miss you baby" with this so delicate voice that I could feel all the love passed through it. Where I am going here, is that there are hundreds and thousands of small moments like these, and that airports are one of the best place to observe them, simply because there they are in high concentration and we don't have anything else to do there than to look around us.
If you still don't get what I am talking about, next time you go to an airport, alone or with other people, just pay attention to the people that surround you, because they might be able to transmit you tiny joys that in truth are gigantic.
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