Taking off always leads me feeling both tense and comfortable. Gigantic wings are lifting several hundred human beings in an instant!Only one hundred years ago ,
this would be an incredible story.
"This plane is moving at 800 km an hour at an altitude of 10,000 m and the temperature outside is -40 degrees."
This announcement causes me to say only
" amazing ".
Above 1 km more there is no air.
Even if I was the pilot, it would be hard to understand my location. Someday people will travel through the vacuum of space via a space shuttle. If I could be in that reality, maybe I would say only, "Incredible ".
Our plane took off at night and delightfully my actual Japan was shrinking for a moment. Because I was over the equator and Australia was awakening in a morning glow.
This is a common world for many but a wonder world for me.
From the sky the earth looks very small but after landing earth has unlimited space.

On returning from Australia I could see the Great Barrier Reef from my window.
Boomerang shaped reefs were surrounded by a beautiful ocean.
Each coral reef should be colored as tropical fishes seen in an aquarium. But for me there is no feeling of such countless lives because from the sky the reefs seem only colored and strangely shaped figures as seen in a picture at a modern art museum.
Is it true there are tropical fishes?
On the reefs I can see many buildings but I can not believe human being live in such narrow spaces.
I can not believe it is real world. I forget that people can live in very small spaces.
I can not believe it is a real world even if it had a real coastline.
(Perhaps it is a prison? a cemetary?)

If I were dead in this plane it would not make me different from people on earth.
But I am alive.
Is it true I am alive on earth ?
Perhaps I wandered too far from earth.
(or there is too little oxygen in this plane)
Anyway such strange concepts will be put aside when I arrive at the airport and recognize the faces of people.

Perhaps the evening glow on earth as seen from the plane leads me to such strange imagination of dead and alive.
(or is it too little oxygen?)
If this plane flew a little higher there would be no oxygen.
I can not breathe there without out a space suit. It comforts me to find aa very beautiful evening glow in our living world.
As time passed, the blue sky was infused with blood red color.
I know it is impossible to take a picture of that fantastic illusion, but I release the shutter over and over again to catch the evening glow on earth.
(Ichiro-I have made comments : BB)