Flight Level 340.

"When you've tasted flight, you'll want to return to the air". What's special about these words is that they were said by Leonardo Da Vinci, 300 years before Wright Brothers made flight possible. It is really mesmerising as to how the human mind can form visual descriptions of things even without seeing or feeling them.

When you think about such a mammoth-sized thing lifting itself into the sky so high, it does amaze you. The feeling of the plane hurtling down the runway, accelerating so quickly to reach rotate speed, then the nose lifting up and rising into the sky, and then- a moment of serenity when the wheels leave the ground, and suddenly, you transition to a heavenly world- the sky.

I think man's inventions have all started out with the noblest of intentions, but just like everything else, mistakes are inevitable, and when they get underway, things go south. Flight has faced many challenges over the last century, resulting in accidents that have taken away many lives. The range of causes for these accidents are astonishing- a couple of small bolts that weren't fastened properly resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives. One night's lack of sleep resulted in the captain making a misjudgement that claimed the lives of hundreds. However, the story of flight isn't all that gloomy and sad, for we've learnt from our mistakes. We've made sure that all flights are grounded until the mistake is fixed properly. We've made sure to account for the human factor when making decisions. And that's what’s important in life too. We will make mistakes, yes. After all, we're humans. Each created with imperfections of our own.

However, what we really need to be doing is to take the time to accept our mistakes and try doing what can solve the problem, and when possible, try compensating for the mistakes of the past. We need to understand that we’re all humans, and we’re all bound to make mistakes at some time, and that we don’t really realise that we’re making a mistake while actually doing it. We need to accept the inevitability of mistakes occurring, and try to point out mistakes- not for the sake of criticism, but for the sake of correcting those imperfections, for that’s what humanity was created for- make perfect what isn’t, make refined what’s crude, make polished what’s raw. We need to help one another overcome their imperfections. And when that happens, the world around us gets a step closer to Utopia.