Wings Above the Sky

I only see it from afar but whenever I watch it in the sky my heart skips and wonder how it feels like to be inside it, to actually be there and feel the excitement of flying. I am talking about an airplane.
At 5pm after school, my friends and I would grab our spoon and bucket and run to the shore and gather seashells, swim in the beach and eat our food we brought. In a small island, we would lay down in the salty sand and just look up the sky with our wet clothes and mud all over our feet. I was 10 years old and didn't care about how I look. The sky is almost orange, a sign of darkness will spread soon. If we get lucky, an airplane will pass and all of us will just shout with happiness and say to each other, we will eventually be on that plane.
And I did!

After more than a decade I experienced being inside of that big wings that I only see from afar when I was a kid. I was in Manila of February 2008. It was my embassy interview. I told my best friend that I will take a ferry if I won't pass the interview but I will take a plane if I get a work Visa for United States. And yes indeed, I took a Cebu Pacific Airways. From then on, been travelling from one place to another by plane. Travelled with Delta and of course I have Sky Miles of 12,000. Travelled with US airways with dividend miles of 5,000. And travelled with Cathy Pacific and an Asia Miles member. And 5 or more Airlines.
I was just a kid at that time but in my heart I know I will be a traveller just like Marco Polo. But I, for sure will be travelling with different airlines all over the world. And every time I am on the plane remembering those faded memories in the seashore, I can not help but smile. That feeling of excitement and that skips of my heart whenever I see a plane when I was a kid, I knew it was a good sign that someday I will be in a different land other than my usual play ground which was the seashore.