What does dream girl dream about & what is the reality?

Someone great once said “ travel the world and you won't repent spending a penny”, The dream of many would be to travel the world. Indeed travelling the world has no limits and to see the unseen has no price. The idea of travelling the world is itself very lucrative.

The one who said the above saying forgot to envision the 21^st century  world. Where every thing has a cost to incur. Nothing comes for free and no travel is cheap, yes one might not care about the cost while you are travelling because the world is actually mesmerizing, the more you see the more you wanna see. Technology has made it even more easier to know about different places.

Hence our beautiful green and blue earth has been divided within categories of “ Must see places” & “not so cool places”.

Must see places are the parts of the green blue ball where one should go before the short term life vanishes. Whereas Not so cool places are the ones where if you don't go, society will not make you feel jealous.

I think In this ever evolving world, there is one thing that  middle class people always wanna do is to travel and see the world. I say middle class people because the poor won’t imagine and the Rich don’t care as they always go from one place to the other. Yes, the middle class is the one who wants to travel, collects money for it, longs for it, work even harder and harder so to enjoy later. A study shows that more than 45% of middle class people take double jobs so as they can travel abroad to have a nice little vacation.It will be really imperative to talk about the first person who ever traveled the world Ferdinand Magellan, who started his voyage when he was 25 years old, from the west of the known world to the east of it.

Hence creating the everlasting and zillion dollar travel business. Ever since right from the Mayan civilization the traveling between the worlds or lets say rather traveling to moon and other planets have been thought of, processed and trialed. There by making the journey across any two points important and necessary.

So after all this debate of traveling and how and why is it a dream of many?

What would be the perfect way to travel and how not to spend a penny and see the world across. Like any other query google can answer this even faster and easier.

Let’s join the travel business which offers to take you from one continent to an other and from one country to another. Shipping business sounds good to the same but ships do take a longer span of time and it's a very meticulous job to be in the water from approx 45 days before landing up on the docks of any country. Railways make it even narrower as it's practically impossible to cross seven seas.

Here come an option which is safer (nowadays), advanced, way too faster than ships, and offers to show you across the green and blue floating ball in the universe, you guessed it right Aviation. Apparently, not everyone associated with the aviation business can see the world at a pace of that compared to the Flight attendants.

Flight attendants commonly called as cabin crew & flight crew do travel the world at a tremendous pace and sometimes are able to cover all the continents within 2 years of the career. Of cause they are paid to travel, and most obviously their stay is taken care by the company they work for.

Thus making it the most perfect career option, often I have seen people who want to join as a cabin crew talking that how much they wanna see the world, the glamour of the job pulls everyone. The timid little girl who only used to put make up on her face (that to some local one)occasionally, will now have to apply most luxurious branded make up on her face every day. Advertisers have made the mere walk in the airport so important that every gal longs to wear that uniform and put that affectionate make up with the smile up her face showing the content and feeling of gratification and walking through various airports across the world.

Way before even she (talking in specific gender as 90% of crew members are girls, but It could also apply to boys in various occasions) is selected to be a crew, she already have dreams to move out her native country, all of a sudden her own country either becomes dirty and crowded or becomes very static and boring, if nothing then the people of their own country become so narrow and lifestyle is like a sheep walk. They start dreaming about the destinations they wanna visit, things they wanna buy, world to see and yes of cause a boyfriend who may be from different country and which might make her settle in abroad and the exit plan is also ready by now.

 Expecting to explore various cultures and people their languages and accents. Here she keeps her few first steps in the webbed world of Cabin crew.

On the first few months and years everything seems to fall in place and first few months are just perfect and as per the plan, new crew members start to believe in the illusion of controlling their life and running the show, the very way they wanted it to be. They say “to get comfortable in any place is your first mistake”, and that what happens. First clicker goes off when the body starts to hurt and your back hurts more than your heart. Time flies right beneath your foot steps and you don’t even realize that your exit plan has passed and over due by 2 years now. Money never seems enough, the standard of life becomes like such. You find less real friends but more Gucci ,Prada, LV bags in your closet. Suddenly all other nationalities become faded and your flag and food becomes priced possessions, your vocabulary increases so much that you keep mixing your native language with the others. 

Parties, clubs , lounges and pubs give you so much of your favorite music that you don’t wanna talk anymore. People everywhere seem to be unhappy which start to make you negative about life and you tend to move backward from them. Passengers shout at you, supervisors blame you for their mistakes, fellow crew member is not there for you, all of a sudden you might find yourself on a 12 hour flight with others talking in their native language and no one to talk, It’s like standing in times square for the 5th time and you are all alone, the loneliness kills you inside. You long for your leaves, you wanna go  to your stupid looking country which now soothes you, where you feel belonged, you wanna make a new exit plan.One day you feel that it's enough - I had enough of world traveling I wanna settle, relax, I have seen it all and the next split second you realize that this is  addiction. Outside this world your experience is not counted, what will you do? Where will you work? Visiting home is fine but can you go back there in that dirt and filth?

The world of cabin crew has now webbed you, the illusion now is showing its magic trick, it has made you a woman of Prada and Gucci bag, a woman who hadn't even heard about sushi before but now you love it, what if u don't find it again? There starts a flight between the heart and the mind, and believe me not mind always wins. You have already expanded your world, bought a new house, a new car, loaned some money, invested in shares, bought the best insurance. You have come too far to turn back.

Hence leaving a Cabin crew to adapt a plastic smile from the smile of that genuine little timid, naive, simple and enthusiastic girl who once jumped from her bed to see the world. And today she is dragging her feet as she has realized that she is trapped in this vicious circle. She can’t live it but she can't leave it.

There is no exit plan.

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