A Moment to Remember...

I went to the airport over the weekend to bid goodbye to a family friend. Dropped him off to the terminal, and started driving back towards the city. Many exits, train lines and overhead bridges criss-cross the area, and while it is regular to catch sight of an overhead bridge with cars, trucks, or even trains on it, I saw something different this time. I saw a huge jet plane on the overhead bridge I was just about to go under. Its wings spread far out beyond the boundaries of the bridge. The plane was travelling slowly across the bridge and as I went under the bridge, it felt queer remembering that an actual airplane was moving slowly overhead of me. It felt wonderful! I came out the other end and kept the bridge in sight through my rearview mirror for as long as the plane moved smoothly over it.

Clumsy post, but I really cannot do enough justice to that moment. It's one thing to know that technology advances in so many dimensions everyday, but it's a whole other world actually being able to witness all of that. My hat's off to the engineers responsible for this.

[P.S. Well, I know, it's only a bridge. It's as easy to build, conceptually, as one built for cars and all. I know all that. But imagine using the materials: the concrete, the iron; and using them in proportions such that a vehicle weighing a hundred times more than an everyday truck can avail of that bridge!]