An Arab on a Plane
On my flight last week to speak at the Science and Non-Duality conference, this happened …
30 thousand feet in the air, his little 6 year old voice quietly sang what sounded like an Arabic children’s song to himself in the seat in front of me. I had passed his mother and father before I sat down; her with her covered head and the father with a gentle smile meeting mine. Then suddenly the boy went silent, and slowly, his cheek began to appear peeking around that tight space between the wall of the plane and the back of his seat about two feet in front of me. First his cheek, then only his one eye appeared, because there wasn’t room for more.
He wasn’t looking at me. No, he was looking out my window up into the endless blue sky above – as if waiting for some mystery to be revealed. His dark pupil was overflowing with innocent awe, quietly fascinated by the utter simplicity and vastness of the boundless blue and empty sky. He stared a long time.
Watching him, I thought to myself, in that moment his little young mind was still fresh and free of the definitions of Christian, Muslim, or Jewish – or of what voting means, or a wall between countries, or what the word immigrant means, or what prejudice is made of. He may have experienced any of these, but his being still has ample space for innocent curiosity – before he learns the concepts of identities and separation.
An Arab on a Plane should be just a Person on a Plane.
However, in this moment, only the vast openness of the blue sky surrounding this metal-winged object hurtling through space held his interest. Bless his innocence. May we all for one brief moment of eternity forget how religion separates us, or what being from this or that country means. May we rekindle the innocent and universal curiosity of staring into the spacious sky together, forgetting our myriad identities. For this one timeless moment may we together share these brief lifespans we have on this earth, this 4 billion year-old garden, our home, hurtling through space.
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