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girlypsyop · 11 months

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I'm going crazy I need somebody to read this conversation I overheard on an airplane in 2022. I totally forgot about it until I found it while going through my notes.

It is a bit long but it was just so surreal and beautiful and something something humanity ok?

u ever just overhear one of the most touching interactions of your life in the back of a airbus a320

So I'm gna explain this really bad and it was kind of a "had to be there" situation but just imagine a completely dark airplane, no lights, no open windows, except a single one in the row behind you

In that aisle there's a middle-aged man sitting on the aisle. He is traveling alone. 2 women are sitting next to him

Across the aisle from them are 3 guys

So this middle aged guy. his name is Roy:)

He sits down next to the two woman and as we are shuttling to the runway, he asks if they can open the window because it's his very first flight.

They open the window

They ask him about his destination

He says he's going to Chicago when the plane starts taking off. He YELLS "Woah! Full throttle baby!" (Imagine this in the most southern accent you've ever heard)

Everyone in the back 3 rows cracks up

He laughs and says "yall got your windows closed? Not the least bit curious about what in the hell just happened?"

Everyone at a window seat who could hear him opened their window for a bit

For a while he points out things in the window.

"First time I stepped outta my podunk little town and saw the city it seemed so massive. Just... skyscrapers you have to crane your neck to look at, I'd never seen anything like it. But look at it... you can see the entire city from up here. Look at those teeny tiny little buildings."

....

"Are all those squares down there farms?"

"I think so yea"

"....if aliens ever visit they're gonna think someone got to us first"

....

"I thought there'd be more trees. There are trees everywhere where I'm from. I mean ive seen pictures of deserts and whatnot. Just never seen it with my own two eyes. How do people live like that"

"well it is January. Maybe they're all just dead"

"Oh right. No shit............. that's worse somehow."

....

"This is gonna be a stupid question but is that a cloud down there? Or just fog from a different angle or something, I dunno! Nothing looks like it does down there, I don't trust my own eyes"

"Yes its a cloud"

"That is so awesome. I was hoping we'd see some clouds. I looked up pictures on the internet, but they don't compare to the real deal"

After that he gets a bit nervous, says he doesn't like how the plane feels so still, as if we aren't even moving. He asks if we get drinks on this flight, they say yea usually. He tells them to wake him up when it happens.

When the attendant is a few rows ahead of him, they wake him up. He asks them if they've got bourbon. They laugh and say "not for the poor people" then they ask him if he likes ginger ale he says

"I mean sure"

"If you like ginger ale you'll love it on an airplane"

"Why in the... why the hell does it make a difference on a plane?

"I don't know, the carbonation the ginger it settles your stomach. And it just tastes better somehow. Trust me, it's almost a tradition."

"Well gee there's something you don't read about.. ginger ale on airplanes.."

...

He gets the ginger ale

"It tastes like a ginger ale"

"Yea but it's ginger ale on a plane!"

"If you say so"

A few minutes later he says

"Yknow maybe my expectations were just too high. I was expecting it to taste like. I dunno God's spit or something."

The guys across the aisle lose it

"Man that's what I'm calling airplane gingerale from now on. God's spit"

He goes back to sleep after that. As we start our initial descent he wakes up. one of the girls asks where's he's from

"Lousiana. Small town, I never left it once."

"Wow you must have really loved it"

"Ha. Something like that. I'm a rehabilitation counselor there. Have been for 3 years. Got a big fancy promotion last year, now I'm a bit of a team leader. Who would have thought. Have to wear a tie and everything. Never pictured myself someone's boss. Normally I'm... normally I'm the one quittin after a few months and slashin the boss's tires"

"Oh yea? You ever piss someone off enough to get your own tires slashed"

"Not yet but a man can dream"

A minute passes

One of the guys across the aisle, he's wearing a tie tells roy

"I was in and out of rehab for nearly my whole life. What a thankless job, nobody likes you until long after they've left"

"Ah well. We don't do it for the thanks. It's rewarding to see people turn their lives around. Not all of them not even most of them. But every now and then...."

"Well I hope you know even the ones who don't quite make it are just grateful someone gives a shit about them, even if they're being paid to."

"Oh I'm well aware son. I'm In recovery myself. It's why I could never leave my town. My mom died birthing me and my dad... well it's hard for him. He's got health problems and head problems probably. I think losin her really fucked him up. He did what he could but.... Well I don't wanna bring down the room.....bringing down this particular room would be terrorism I think"

I died at that one

"This is the first time in my life I've had a paid vacation. I never married or had kids and. Well I'm taking this trip for me, but those folks back in the facility are what push me to do this. It's hard sometimes to convince them it's worth it to cross the finish line when I can't show em proof of a better life."

"So why chicago?"

"Well... I never said it out loud but I used to read about those old prohibition bars. Those were big in Chicago. I always wanted to go. Secret entrances and passwords and all that. So I looked it up and there's some those old speakeasies that you can still go to. It's a bit kitch

....

"My ears hurt real bad don't they control the pressure in these tin cans?"

"I guess not very well. Try opening your mouth a bunch it'll pop your ears"

"That's.. disturbing"

#i shed like 2 tears during this convo #im so glad i wrote all this down i really hope roy is doing well #smth about love being found in unlikely places....#i hope he found his funky bars and told everyone about them #i hope he told everyone his exciting airplane story #i hope everyone in those last three rows has a beautiful life #some people would be annoyed but eb was just... therr together... remembering how crazy it is to fly....#anyway this was like a poem to me #like reading it back it sounds like a 'then everyone clapped' story but sometimes.... there is beauty....

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daydadahlias · 4 months

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omg okay jess i don’t even know what to say. i can’t believe i didn’t read scene 14 sooner omg it’s amazing. this may just be your best fic imo. i’m gonna read take notes next and then i can just for sure but holy shit. this fic has fucked me up so bad. i’ve never read anything like it. i’m pretty sure you’ve mentioned before that you act/ have acted and i think that’s one of the many reasons i really love this fic because all of the acting scenes and stuff feel real and honest. not like you researched it. and i did NOT think this fic was going to be as angsts as it was, or at least i didn’t think i was going to be sobbing and pacing and (quietly) screaming at 3am over the last 2 chapters. i really love how well you portrayed luke’s reaction to the break up, even though it wasn’t actually the break up (but i think that makes it worse honestly) and the whole miscommunication between them. the fact the ash thought they were dating the whole time after they had sex was what really got me. i wanna listen to the rest of the twenty minutes of that voicemail! i loved the whole ash knowing luke’s coffee order thing. i loved how ash finally got a good first time, and hopefully many more. i can’t remember if it said that they’re going to tell them eventually, but i love how everyone else is still out of the loop! i really hope sierra and kay kay didn’t break up and i really hope crystal says yes to michael’s proposal and they live happily ever after. i hope calum and roy have a happy ending too. i literally could think of so much more to say but i need sleep haha. i really loved this fic jess. thank you for writing it and thank you for all that you do in the fandom. im gonna go to sleep now and then when i wake up i’m gonna watch the normal heart and die over scene 14. bye bye jess

Hello anon!!!!! Sorry it took me a second to get to this!! I thought I would have time to get to my computer at some point today but apparently not so I’m writing this on my phone while walking my dog apologies.

I really have not thought of scene 14 in over a year so this was a nice little reminder that she is still alive and well :) I don’t know if I’d say it’s my best fic but I definitely love it !!! The writing process was so fun (I remember being 17 writing in the back of my science class instead of paying attention 😭).

And yeah I’ve definitely mentioned acting before !! This was in the absolute height of my acting “career” too lol (read: I wrote a play and was in my senior year of highschool theatre), and knew I had to write something about theatre before I went to college and inevitably left it behind (rip acting i will always love you). I appreciate that it felt real and not researched!!! It definitely was all just personal experience coming through (such as my brief obsession with a high school theatre arch nemesis who played Billy in Bright Star — looking back I def would have casted Ashton as Jimmy if I rewrote the fic now).

I’m usually not a fan of miscommunication OR enemies to lovers in stories lol so this was kind of my go at trying to do what I hated :) I’m glad you liked it!!

Honestly the real shame is that I used to have the full voice mail!!! Back in ye old day, when I was writing, I would voice memo all monologues while planning them so I could transcribe them later so that full voicemail used to exist !! And then my phone crashed a year ago and wiped everything I loved lolz.

And Sierra and KK definitely did not break up!! I’d never do that to my girls. And of COURSE crystal said yes. Call me a sentimentalist but I set all those needs up for happy endings.

As for this last bit, I hope you got to sleep!! And thank you so much for this!!! I love our little fandom :) especially for people like you 💙🥰 and you’re going to love the movie!! Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer ate DOWN. Their performances were UNREAL. Keep tissues nearby.

#pigeon #anon #scene 14 #this is so sweet !!!!!!#thank you thank you!!!!!!!#it’s so crazy to look back on that fic #especially when i remember it was like #one of my first 10 fics ???#like I started really strong ahdjdjdj #I should’ve saved it #granted I did post it when the fandom was at a peak so the interaction was so phenomenal #one of the best experiences of my personal life ever tbh it was so fun to post that fic #and I wrote the whole thing in like ?? 3 months ?? it was crazy #17 yo me was a different breed

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zrou · 7 years

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Afterfeelings of Cambodia trip

I could’nt put down all the memories I had for the past year. Everything seems so unreal but a Cambodia trip made me realised once again time heals everything. Recently, I went to Cambodia with four of my friends. All of them are guys, which includes Zhu Kher, Roy, Kean Hong and Qing Sheng.

A weird combination right? Penangites and an outlier Seremban Qing Sheng. It was indeed a meaningful trip for me. Probably just an ordinary trip for them, but it did meant a lot to me. Thanks to Zhu Kher, I actually said yes to him when he first asked me to join him for the Cambodia trip one year ago. One year ago, I broke up with my ex, Zhu Kher knew about it. I have no idea why he only asked me( I’m the only girl among them, you see). Well, he said I am the most sporting one and yeap I am. Who cares whether I’m the only girl among them. I had no problems at all travelling 7 days with them. We all slept in a 16-bedded mix dorm, we shared the same room in Siem Reap( of course not the same bed). Everything was just fine because we all are good friends. Okay will post more on my Cambodia trip later. Back to topic.

The moment I said yes to Zhu Kher, I was simply thinking that I’m single now. I should go travel and see the world when I’m still capable. The most significant thing that ignites my special thought on “TIME HEALS” is that I’m actually travelling with Qing Sheng. I once overwhelmed over him when I was in matriculation. Like seriously overwhelmed. I guess that’s the real first time that I actually pour out all of my feelings towards someone. But I felt totally nothing at all for him throughout the trip. Because I no longer liked him. To be honest, I felt I’m really being used during matriculation time. After some time, I realised probably he did’nt even liked me. He didn’t even know my full name, I was like what the heck? Like seriously? I thought you liked me before and my full name shouldn’t be a doubt at all. Haha I am not being serious anyway right now. But one thing for sure, I’m happy the way we are now. Friends, nothing mor ethan that. And I’m so definitely glad that he did not became my boyfriend that time. Oops. I guess everything really eventually became alright. Time really heals everything.

And after this Cambodia trip, I’m like opened another door and slowly I put down my feelings. Telling myself it’s been a year. He is doing well, so am I. I did some silly things for the past year. I cried without letting him know, I read all the letters he wrote which makes me cried even more, I still wear the bracelet he made, I still hug the bear he gifted me, I still open that box filled with handmade 74 roses, I’m scared to play volleyball every evening because I am so damn sure he will be there, I’m scared to try something new, I actually locked myself up from doing anything. I am literally too free and useless for the pass year. I lived in the past and keep holding on memories.

However, this Cambodia trip just simply opened up my horizons and I just felt yeap it’s time. I know I’ve been saying these for the whole year already. I guess I was kind of busy, filled up with work and travel for the pass month. I stopped thinking of him and I guess I should fill myself up with more activities. Not only to make myself get over everything and also add value to myself. Already I am in my third year, and shouldn’t I wasting my time.

University life... I guess I will just wanna live the rest of it filled with other memories and no longer in a relationship. Simply feel that I am pretty comfortable being single right now. I was quite lost at first but now that I know what I want more precisely, I will not start off a relationship that easily again. Be wise and love myself more. Be confident once again, and be the Zoey Wong whom he used to like but not becoming the one that I no longer recognise. Anyway, it’s really good now that I actually found myself back.

Love really make someone grows and I hope it does too to him. Somewhere deep in my heart, I really think he actually lost something precious, which is me. Yeap, I am damn precious and priceless and I guess I will meet someone who will really appreciate my love someday. Haha, So foe now, I guess I will just live in the dramas and make all the male lead roles to be my temporary imagination boyfriends because no one said I can’t too.

And since Im single now, I can do so many thing. I can get close with anyone because I no longer have anyone be on my mind. I am so gonna go travel when I am capable, both physically and financially. Well, I don’t really care who are my travel partners, be it a guy or a girl. I just really enjoy the process of self-discovering. I know I’m definitely a philosophy that thinks a lot and writes alot on life. Well, since I know that no one really knows this blog so I’m so gonna post whatever, express whatever I felt and put all the dumb shit here. Wakakaz.

Another thing, never stop yourself from being smiling and being happy. Nothing else is more important than happiness. You don’t need anyone to be happy, because happy is simply simple. and being gratitude towards all small things makes your life happier to be easier. So, smile always. :)

#cambodiatrip #aftertripfeelings

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