Jolt. [Alain de Botton]

“Airports help to put us in touch with the idea of alternatives — they relativize us. They make us think that right now, be it at 10 a.m. or 3 p.m., somewhere on the other side of the globe, very different things are happening. They do that very basic task of the places of travel: to jolt us into remembering that the world is stranger, more exciting, more various than we imagine it when we are in familiar surroundings, and in danger of boredom and routine.”

-Alain de Botton

via Ben Casnocha: The Blog
from the Los Angeles Times