Welcome to Your Airport
Updated:01:04 AM ET January 20, 2007
By Anjori Sinha

Have you ever wanted your own personal airport, with planes flying on your command? Think how wonderful and convenient that would be. You could go wherever and whenever your heart desired. You want to take a vacation for a couple of hours? No problem, just hope on to a plane and go!

Alright, so you need a million-trillion bucks to fulfill that dream, right? Wrong.

If you look closely and I mean really closely and really hard, you will find that you have had your own airport since as long as you can remember. You and your life is actually your airport.

I know you think I'm crazy but imagine this. The people in your life are planes. They come and go, in and out of your life. So you are one of the many airports that these planes arrive and depart from. Everyone coming in for a certain purpose; whether the plane was called in or you were their destination from the beginning. In turn you also would be a plane in someone else's airport.

Okay, we've established our image of a personal airport. But what is their purpose? Why have they stopped to be in your life for any amount of time, be it a couple minutes or a couple decades or a whole lifetime? And what is the reason behind the timing, what if they had come earlier or later or never?

I believe that there is a specific reason two people meet. Granted none of us know why beforehand and sometimes we don't realize the reason while there is a relationship between the two. But if one sits down to think about the way a person has impacted their life then the reason will be clearer. Some relationships are made for support, others to teach you something. Sometimes people will land at your airport to make you aware of something in your own life or make you realize those things/other people you take for granted.

For most, there are two persons that remain pretty constant throughout your life time, your parents. They teach you many things necessary to survive in this world. Most importantly they provide you with experience and a sort of guide book. A child can learn a ton from his/her parents, if the parents are observed closely. The way of acting or reacting to certain things comes from parents. They are also the reason most people take basic things for granted such as: food, a roof over your head, and education. We don't realize how much our parents had to work to keep us happy and satisfied, until we are on our own. Then we live paycheck by paycheck. All children should be grateful of their parents. I know I am. I believe some of you readers out there, including me, are saying "Well, I don't get along with my parents very nicely, we fight and argue, and neither one wants to step down to the other's level." Yes, they may be advising you against your will. But no matter what, take it as advice, and use it with your better judgments to make decisions in life.

Parents aren't the only constants, most people have one or two (or for some more popular folk, more than two) people they will lean on at times of crisis and enjoy happy times with. I have one, my sister. I'm glad to just hear her voice sometimes, just to know that she is there, and I can count on her. It is truly a great feeling. I hope all of you have found your constants. And make sure you don't drive them away because of something stupid. May all your airports be stable and collision free! ~*~