Acceptance of Change
Oct. 18th, 2011 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
Every time we reach beyond what is familiar, there is this necessary acclimation to what is new.
Two new (and fairly recent) things:
The Vegas Star Trek Convention moved to a new venue. I've talked about the pros and cons of this move in another post elsewhere on the journal and I don't want to rehash all that here. Suffice to say that after a lot of consideration and time to let the emotion of the change grow cold and be able to be objective about it… in other words, part of the necessary acclimation process… I still don't like the change. Will I still feel the same next year? Will it change how much or if we want to go again, the fact that we don't like the new venue, the people we go to see are still there, right? Are we going for them, or to line creation's pocket?
The other new experience I had recently was flying with Virgin Atlantic. This was something new that I actually liked. Yes, the plane was bigger, but it was also more modern than the American Airlines fleet… had in-seat entertainment, provided real headphones, not noise cancelling, but one that were calibrated to work with the in seat entertainment systems, so that didn't really figure. The also gave out little goody pouches, complete with warm sock, shades for blocking out the light from others if you want to sleep, a pen, and a toothbrush and toothpaste – things that you only get on American if you fly business class… and it really wasn't all that much more expensive. The only con – they don't do a flight direct to RDU and American does. In this increasingly competitive world of Air Travel, where more and more people are flying with whoever gives the best price/service, I wonder how long it will be before either Virgin descends to the level of others, or the others are forced to pull their socks up.
Either way, I have decided to sign up for Virgin's air miles, because they're in a different 'alliance' of airlines from American, and I figure, with sometimes flying with different airlines these days, and not just being loyal to American, if I collect miles from one airline in each 'alliance' sooner or later I'll have enough miles somewhere for a free flight. Of course I'm going to try and stick to one 'alliance' where I can, but… it won't hurt to be able to say, Ooh, hang on, I have such and such an airline alliance miles.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
--Kierkegaard
Every time we reach beyond what is familiar, there is this necessary acclimation to what is new.
Two new (and fairly recent) things:
The Vegas Star Trek Convention moved to a new venue. I've talked about the pros and cons of this move in another post elsewhere on the journal and I don't want to rehash all that here. Suffice to say that after a lot of consideration and time to let the emotion of the change grow cold and be able to be objective about it… in other words, part of the necessary acclimation process… I still don't like the change. Will I still feel the same next year? Will it change how much or if we want to go again, the fact that we don't like the new venue, the people we go to see are still there, right? Are we going for them, or to line creation's pocket?
The other new experience I had recently was flying with Virgin Atlantic. This was something new that I actually liked. Yes, the plane was bigger, but it was also more modern than the American Airlines fleet… had in-seat entertainment, provided real headphones, not noise cancelling, but one that were calibrated to work with the in seat entertainment systems, so that didn't really figure. The also gave out little goody pouches, complete with warm sock, shades for blocking out the light from others if you want to sleep, a pen, and a toothbrush and toothpaste – things that you only get on American if you fly business class… and it really wasn't all that much more expensive. The only con – they don't do a flight direct to RDU and American does. In this increasingly competitive world of Air Travel, where more and more people are flying with whoever gives the best price/service, I wonder how long it will be before either Virgin descends to the level of others, or the others are forced to pull their socks up.
Either way, I have decided to sign up for Virgin's air miles, because they're in a different 'alliance' of airlines from American, and I figure, with sometimes flying with different airlines these days, and not just being loyal to American, if I collect miles from one airline in each 'alliance' sooner or later I'll have enough miles somewhere for a free flight. Of course I'm going to try and stick to one 'alliance' where I can, but… it won't hurt to be able to say, Ooh, hang on, I have such and such an airline alliance miles.
