Thoughts from yet another airport | Hey, I reached 70 rep

Yeah, these "thoughts from an airport" freewrites are getting old.

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Especially because I´ve written at least 5 freewrites in the past month and let´s be honest, there´s only so much you can write about when it comes to honest and real life freewriting. I mean, I could write about fictional experiences or tell you some fantasy stories and I could freewrite everyday three times a day but I like to keep my freewritings about real life circumstances, feelings and well, obviously thoughts from this nomad mind.

I started writing this freewrite in my laptop while waiting for a connection flight but my battery ran out faster than a whale ignores a minnow when they call him "Sir or Boss", so yeah, pretty quick. Then I got my cellphone out and noticed I had 12% battery.

My cellphone is special, it's battery is supposed to last 48 hours even if I'm using it during the whole time and most of the times it stays true to it's word but this time after some 30 hrs is failing me.

This airport is like a Mexican airport in the 80's, there is literally no power outlet in the while building except for the one in the restrooms, so here I am, charging my phone sitting in a not so reliable floor. I don't really mind though, I've sat in way worse places.

Oh yeah don't you remember? I had to get out of Russia for a few days because even though Uncle Vladi already announced that fan ID holders - the ID for football fans - will be able to come and go as we please in Russia during 2018, that law hasn't been approved yet. It will, I'm sure. But right now every football fan that stayed until the 25th had to get out of mother Russia and in case anyone wants to come back, they'll have to wait until official word is out.

That's why I'm here, in an airport at 3 am waiting for a connection flight that leaves at 7:30 am to a secret country.

I'm not telling you about this particular adventure because it's top secret. Remember I'm a nomad by day and a spy by night. Night time varies depending on the country I'm at the moment I make the statement and depending on my mood, sometimes night time has nothing to do with nightfall, get it?

So yeah, I'm going to stay in this secret venue until mother Russia accepts me back.

In the meantime I will do my best to post about my previous explorations in Russia. They are not many because I spent most of my time there watching football, partying with people from all the world and meeting girls - yeah sure, I met like 2 girls in a month obviously - or sick in bed but still, I have a few good stories for you in the near future.

On another subject, oh how I wish I reached reputation 70 a week before! I would have twice gotten twice the byteballs I got from the airdrop but to be honest I didn't realize I was so close to reaching the famous 70.

Not a lot of people reach rep 70 with just organic votes. It took me a year and 3 months to do it and I'm a steemian who gets a lot of votes - most are self votes obviously - so I know it is quite hard for most users to even think of reaching this rep and for that I have to thank everyone who's voted on my posts at least one time, thank you for giving me your little grain of salt to help me build this saltcastle.

I'm happy I'm this rep now, it's like a symbolic reward or goal. It doesn't mean anything in reality, especially now that anyone can "buy reputation by just buying bid bot votes" but still, for those of us who reached it organically is a nice feeling :)

Oh yeah, I never described the thumbnail picture. This airport looks like a shelter. I counted at least 100 people sleeping on the floor waiting for their flight to start boarding.

An airport is one of the best chances to see people behave as if they were at home and nobody was watching. People get showers in the restroom, change clothes, brush their teeth and what not. In the waiting room they sleep, kiss, read, shout at their kids, yawn like walruses and more.

Staying awake in an airport is the best chance to go to a human zoo without paying and analyze other people's behaviour. I'm thinking that for my next waiting room I'm not going to do a freewrite but instead I'm going to take a lot of candid picture of people doing their thing, perhaps that way I can change the tonic of my posts written in an airport, maybe that way I can refresh my "thoughts from an airport".