I think the greatest travesty of our time is that a boy is unable ask if a girl sitting on an adjacent middle cramped and crappy seat on an indigo flight for 2 hours with lots of sleep in her eyes, can rest her head on his shoulder and get a good sleep. Not for any romantic interest. Not for any “ulterior motives”. And definitely not to “get into her pants”. But just as one of the last remnants of human decency and basic manners. For why should any girl not be able to sleep comfortably on a flight?

And yet we have engineered a society which makes it increasingly difficult to affect such moments of courtesy and chivalry. A society which questions, nowadays, even if you offer a hankerchief to a pretty girl and examines your action with the most judgemental and scornful of eyes. Ironically, these folks have never been the affecter and neither the receiver of such courtesy in their own lives. What society are we building if a simple act of asking “Are you okay?” sends the humble human mind into countless internal conundrums and questions and contradictions – that human mind which has been conditioned for millions of years to help and provide for the community and find rejoice and purpose in it? Why should it be so hard to be kind? We must ask ourselves a million times? Why? Why? Why? Isn’t a kindness done to others somehow able to find it’s way back to us? Then how can we, no, why should we expect others to be kind to us in times of our direst needs?