I'm sitting a few yards away from Gate 27 of JFK Jet Blue waiting for a delayed flight to Jacksonville! Many of you, the three of you reading this post, may feel like throwing up just by the sight or smell of an airport. The lines at the check-in counters, the security check that almost leaves you unclothed and the delays and cancellations that accompanies the romance (or nightmare) of flying by plane makes for a ghastly sight and an experience that will make you stop booking for tickets. Despite of all these, however, there's a degree of beauty just by staying in an airport. The sight of peoples of all backgrounds and cultures waiting for their turn to board, either to go home, pass by or migrate into a new place makes an airport a launching pad not only of heavy air transport, but of ideas, dreams, expectations and hopes.

Diplomats use airport to reach nations and territories to strengthen relationships between two nations. Foreign workers use airports to go to a place where they can enrich their careers or enhance their income. Businesspeople use airports to explore new markets, close deals and develop networks. Religious workers use airports to get to a destination where they spread their faith.

Airports are platforms, the terminals and gates funnels to things new, different and for some, sentimental and full of meaning. It is where you begin a journey or mark an end of one that was just taken. Just as if we have Facebook to connect to people, Twitter to connect to conversations and Wordpress to connect to an audience, we have airports that connects us to new places where we discover, demystify and develop a perspective of the world we may never have gained without the wonders of air travel.