Why It’s Good to Look Up Occasionally

Allan Milne Lees
Nov 8 · 7 min read

How a giant of the skies can alter your perspective on life

Image credit: British Airways

My tutor was a little ahead of me, at the top of the hill. I’d stopped to wipe sheep poo off my shoe.

“Look!” he said, pointing straight up. A Boeing 747 was about 3,000 meters above his head, on its way from Leeds Airport to some unknown destination, an aluminium cylinder filled with perhaps 300 living people.

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Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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