Waiting for the Flight

I am sitting inside the airport waiting lounge at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto Airport. I have come here quite early as I had to check out from the hotel at 2 pm. It's almost half past 4pm now. The flight for Karachi is leaving at 7 pm. It's still a long time to go.

But the waiting lounge has some activity. A lot of people are waiting for their flights. Some are just trying to relax; others seem a little stressed from their foreheads; still others, enjoying (really enjoying I can't say for sure!) with their families. Some are using their time for catching up on past news (today's newspapers report yesterday's news!). Some are trying to connect themselves with their near and dear ones - perhaps in a way this waiting time brings us to normal senses. Some are just looking around with no real purpose. Few are also looking outside  through the glass window, perhaps trying to discover something they have been looking for all their lives!

Interestingly very few I can see engrossed in books - alas, we have the poorest reading habit when it comes to book reading. It was really very different from my experience of Cardiff/UK where I would often find people engrossed in book reading while they would be waiting for a bus, train or flight.

Thanks to Internet, I can now find a couple of free internet cabins for waiting passengers, provided by Wateen, a cellular company and internet service provider. Some people are perhaps taking time to check their emails or simply googling their time away.

I can also see some kids playing around creating a kind of little hustle and bustle. Some kids seem really interested in seeing through the glass window.

Some people in groups are talking their time away. Interestingly I can't find ladies having any activity except looking over their kids sometimes.

Life is so interesting when we wait. It's so relaxed here. Very rarely we find time to look into ourselves or over others in such a relaxed mood. Modern life has its advantages and disadvantages obviously, as we can see now.