Airplane

I think it was about 2013. For the first time in my life, I choose the airplane as my favorite transportation. In that time, I'm going to Bengkulu from Jakarta with my uncle. It's like dream haha because I didn't expect before, I can take a flight. My first flight journey was so amazing, I can see how beautiful clouds from small windows. I can't stop thinking about, build a cloud castle like in Doraemon's movie. In that trip, I was not sleeping yet, till 1 hour 30 minutes finally I arrived at Bengkulu, my lovely hometown.

I love airplane so much because, I can see many things from the sky, I can be in between the clouds. Till someday, I'm so curious how about have a flight in the night? So when I want to back at Yogyakarta from Bengkulu, I decided to buy a night flight ticket and I'm grateful because at that time I got permission from my family. 

I departed from Bengkulu to Jakarta in the afternoon and transit for couple hours in Soetta Jakarta. For the second flight (Jakarta to Yogyakarta), I departed in the evening at 6 pm. But I hear an announce from a speaker in the waiting room that our flight will be delayed about 1-1,5 hours because of still getting ready of the airplane. So many passenger angry because of it, but we are still waiting for the airplane which called the delayed airline. But, after waiting for 1-1,5 hours, I ask the administrator in the waiting room, why after 1-1,5 hours but there isn't announce about our boarding flight. The administrator just answers that we need to waiting for an hour again. I feel upset because I feel tired enough, but at the same time I'm thinking positively too because I think, I'll be a beautiful flight if we depart at 9 pm. 

Finally, at 9pm, the speakers in the waiting room announce my flight will be boarding soon. we were getting prepared our ticket and went to the airplane. As long as I remember, I didn't sit beside windows. (I wish someday, I can choose the seat as I want like when I buy the train's ticket) Night flight isn't beautiful like what I imagined before. The lamp on the airplane is off and all I can see from the windows just black and sometimes it's grey when we through some clouds. To be honest, that night flight was scary me. How the airplane crashing the clouds and make some shaking in the airplane.

I just thinking about "how if this plane crashed?"

But, Alhamdulillah I arrived at Yogyakarta safely.

To be honest, even I love the airplane, I can't ignore my negativity thought that always across my head every time I get a flight. I never absent to pay attention when the crews tell and practice how to use safety tool. The crew always tell us, a life jacket is under our seat. But, I ever feel so curious and I reach out under my seat but, I can't find it. At that time, I wasn't possible to squat and look under my seat to see where life jacket is. The space between the seat and other seat is also so narrow. I think, if something happens it'll be harder to find it.

And after all of it,

Lately, we get sad news about Lion Air just crashed in the sea of Jakarta after take off about 13 minutes on October 29th, 2018. And till this day, the plane hasn't been found and no passenger has been declared safe from that accident.

About safety tools, I don't even know how if someday I'm in that situation. I don't know where life jacket is and at the same time, I'll panic enough. And if I can find life jacket it needs time to use it, and I'm not sure I'll use it correctly in the first time I tried it. And if I can wear it correctly, It also needs time for queued out to the emergency door.

In my opinion, It was so useless. If all the crew tell and practice how to use safety tools and we just pay attention to it without trying it by ourselves. I believe, not all of the passengers in every flight understand how to use that safety tools especially life jacket except passenger that ever use it before. I just imagine, in the bad situation every single passenger will be panic and I believe no matter how hard the crews trying to not be panic, they will. And at that time, we didn't know how many time left. I know if time says to stop. It will be. No matter how hard we are trying to make it don't stop. But I just think, maybe it will be better if the airline gives us time in every flight before take-off which in that time the crews and passenger will practice about using safety tools.

And to be honest...

After that, I'm so afraid to take a flight again and I'm so confused what kind of transportation should I take when I want to back at my hometown on this holiday.

I think I need to go to Everland and stole pixie dust as much as I can...right?