First Class

Welcome back. So I was sitting in class today, and a crazy thought popped into my head. Hear me out on this.

So it's CalcIII, not particularly an easy class but whatever, and I'm sitting about midship in the classroom. I'm in a good seat, not too far back and I'm pretty much in the middle. I'd have to say I was certainly happy with it. But then a thought occurred. Why not sit in the front row? There's the most legroom in the front row by a huge margin, you get the best view, you're the closest to the door so you don't have to wait for people to get their asses out of the way when class is over; it's first class.

And then I took it a step further. What if there was a first class, just like the airlines, for everything? Like a first class lecture: you get to sit in the front row, unlimited leg space, the seats are comfortable recliners, and the best part? Free beverage service. Imagine throughout the lecture a cute lecture attendant comes up to you and offers you a selection of cheap beer, wine, or diluted soft drinks and juice? And like halfway into class a steaming hot meal is handed to you, so while you take notes and struggle to pay attention you're wining and dining in first class.

Of course the problem with this is that first class tuition would be in the hundreds of thousands. In fact first class anything would be way too expensive. In fact even flying first class is way to ridiculously expensive for me to even want to do it. But once you sit down and think about it, in the age we live in everything is first class.

Thanks to the sweat shops out east, pretty much everything is relatively cheap to the average American; clothes, education, proper shelter, good food. Compared to how things were a century or two ago, we live at a higher standard than most people across the world and across could have imagined. If you can afford a phone you're somewhere above like the 80-90th percentile of wealthy people in the world already. Compared to everyone else, a lot of us in America live a first class life without realizing it.

Flying the airlines is the perfect example. Most people on Earth will ever get to fly on an airplane. In fact before 1900, not a single person in the world got to. So out of the hundreds of billions of people who have ever lived on this planet, if you've flown on an airplane you are the 0.000000...% who are lucky and blessed enough. And we bitch about it constantly! "He took my pillow. My seat won't go back any further. My flight is delayed 20 minutes. Why don't you serve wine after 8am?"

This is all part of the reason why when on a plane, I feel like I'm royalty regardless of first class or economy. I sip my cocktail, rest my eyes, listen to my favorite music, look out the window and smile. No one really acts like flying is a privilege, no one really acts like anything in life is a privilege. So instead of bitching incessantly at every chance I get, I treat my life like it's first class. Because it is.

Until next time...