So we took the ultimate step today and booked our one way tickets bound for Bangkok. While I am nervous about the fact that the only seats available for two happens to be miles apart from each other, I’m ten times more anxious about the commitment and finality of what the tickets represent. As the airline indicated on their website, there’s no refund.
I can’t recall the last time I booked a one way ticket. Mostly because it’s always much more expensive than a round trip ticket, but usually I don’t mind since it means I have some degree of certainty that at the end of it all, I’ll be back at square one. This move to Bangkok, while imminent and inevitable, appears somewhat frighteningly drastic. Mixed feelings brewing within Pinky’s brain and aside from marriage, I hate commitments. However, I embrace change and particularly the quasi vacationing kind, but the kind that puts you in limbo until you arrive at the airport and at the mercy of your family and her in laws (we know how I feel about in laws), makes me want to hyperventilate and jab my eyes out as it keeps rolling upward. I can’t stop sighing!!! Melancholy and languishing about the thought of leaving behind people and places associated with my personal history, I’m forging ahead with Plan A as one would at any crossroad. Nonetheless, I can’t help but question what’s in my head..
Is it really worth giving everything up (i.e. business, friends, family) for an opportunity to venture across the Pacific ocean to be immersed in a foreign land where one speaks not a word of the language? Is it worth giving up the creature comfort of familiarity one finds at Krispy Kreme donuts, small beef burgers the size of a coin pancake at 58 Degrees, and shopping at discounted Macys, to evidently discover culture and small treasures in an exotic land? I sigh again. Life is full of laughable surprises, shocking discoveries and memorable moments.
If all else fails, lets see how long the in laws will put up with my crazy antics as I check out of exotic cultural mystique and back into civilization.
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