"I fly 747s for a living. Here are the amazing things I see every day."(vox.com)
vox.com
"I fly 747s for a living. Here are the amazing things I see every day."
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/2/11520288/pilot-airplane-photos
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I believe this is called "sonder".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0_FiV4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0_FiV4
"We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives." - Robert M. Pirsig
He seems to maintain a sense of wonder that I find surprising for a pilot. For me, I think the daily routine would become droll and familiar after working it for a year or so. And I can't imagine how hard it would be to sit in a cockpit doing nothing for 12 hours while the plane flies in a straight line over the ocean, and then do it again the next day, and the next. It seems so boring.
If you do what you love for a living, you'll never have to work again. Of course what one person loves another can find boring :-)
I finally made an account to comment on this. This is one of those realizations which, to me, still has its full effect every time I think about it. I think it really hit me the first time when I was on a road trip, passing city after city, neighborhood after neighborhood, house after house, and then thinking about the population of the area I just passed compared to that of my state, my country, and outward. Thinking about the challenges and experiences I've had among my friends and family, inside each of those houses, etc. It's a very powerful source of empathy.