Arrivals and Departures- or another day at the office?

As stated before, life is a series of arrivals and departures. People come and people go but the ones that stay, the ones that truly matter, are the constant in a world of in's and out's. Traveling from airport to airport we see it all; tears of goodbye's and tears of hello's. The airport can be such an emotional gateway, reuniting and tearing people apart. Diving right into it, we don't know. What does that fragment mean? We don't know, I don't know. It starts with you! I don't know what you just endured whether it be personally or operationally. You might have just said goodbye to your true love or might be departing for a funeral. You might have just had another flight cancelled and missed your sister's wedding. I don't know you, but what I do know is that with every departure there is an arrival. Every end there is a beginning. When you leave someone- someone else, whether it be instant or eventually, will be there on the other side. Bereavement travel is comparable. Boarding that flight is like the beginning of an end, but with the boarding comes an arrival. A reuniting of family, friends, and loved ones. As cabin crew we can get carried away with how we are treated or how we come across. But we just don't know. A lot of us don't realize that emotional roller coaster that can come with airports and we take it for granted that what might be the hardest thing for you, is just another day at the office for us. We do care, we really do! Sometimes it just takes a moment of goodbyes for ourselves personally to realize it. So with every departure and every arrival, if we treat it like an end and a beginning we can regain that empathy and sympathy that a lot of people want. Just a simple and sincere "how are you" does more than you'll ever know. It doesn't matter if your in 13F or in the jump seat. We are all human.