Although never classified by general consensus as a fatal or eccentric occupation , flying is now recognized to be by no means harmful , physically or mentally , simply an innocent way of behaving in life .
This uncontrollable impulse which comes to most people , sooner or later , to go and fly , riding those quite funny flying machines , hanging in the skies , is due basically to a craving for excitement , or maybe to our human desire to mystify ourselves and others , by performing aggressive and risky actions .
Although madness is in my honest opinion , only rarely caused directly by flying , it is maybe significant that long segments of flights over the years , as well as long flights in general , could consequently be considered as a cause of minor mental instability .
Flying did , through the years , teach me the importance of geography as well as many useful geographical conceptions . The real secret of geography is that without it , one would be quite lost , hence one could never circumnavigate the globe . Only by means of geography , one would know at once where to go and how to get there .
Some of these important geographical conceptions , the equatorial enigma for instance , which describes the grand basic line that cuts and divides the earth in half , we call it equator , which is , as everyone admits , imaginary , invisible , invariable and very warm . But surely navigable and totally memorable . In fact , and generally speaking , a thoroughly perfect all around line .
Some other as important lines , affecting our capacity to find places , we've learned to call them longitudes and latitudes , everyone knows that geography would never be the same again if these serious lines were not there . We could be at a total loss if someone did erase them from the surface of the earth . They are so comfortably drawn to go up and down and laterally , so they can all meet at the north and south poles , and all of us navigators cling to the belief that they are perfectly parallel .
Just imagine how fatal and eccentric , the flying business would be without those geographical conceptions and funny lines .
AS usual I praise your patience with my funny , and not so funny , ideas and writings . Thank you all .
madness is rarely caused directly by flying because madness is caused mostly by......marriage.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, who says that North is up and South is down? Do you know that in Australia you can buy maps of the world with the south pole up and the north pole down?