My Beautiful Journey 2.0 !!

 

Hey you beautiful people with beautiful souls. I am now continuing my previous post. So as I said my dream knocked on my door and I opened it to grab it to never let it go. Feelings can't be expressed in mere words, however I was on the cloud nine. Felt like I conquered the world, but guess what that's what you feel when you achieve something, what about what's lying ahead? The most important person who became childishly happy was my mother, she was proud and happy that whatever I thought it happened finally. Mind you, this was just the opening. Things weren't so easy that it looked. Did I tell you guys which airline was my first? It was Indigo Airlines, the most famous low-cost airlines in India and growing worldwide. 

Now, to join the airline there was this amount of 50,000/- INR needs to deposited within the time given. Oh that struggle to ask people to give me that sort of amount was a real task for me. My mom didn't have that much cash as she was not a working women, all she had was bit of rent coming from some property. I saw my dreams vanished in front of me, my heart was in so much pain that I had no idea whom to ask for help. And so that you all know, there is no such thing called relative's help in my cases. So, I stopped thinking about all of that and decided to do something more cheaper may be, suddenly my mom comes with her jewellery and tells me "let's keep this to the bank and get some cash for you". I was in tears and didn't know what to say really at that time. She is my backbone and she had my back when none did. 

We got the money finally, so the process of becoming the So called Air Hostess begun. I started the training, where I met alot of young girls like me who always aspired to be in Airlines. Some one very good and were not so good. Kidding !! All of them were really friendly. The real torture begun and the training of all the possible lessons to be a cabin crew were going bit harshly. You see, when you sit at home and watch these beautiful advertisements on TV where a beautiful girl comes in kingfisher Airlines and says "Hello", So awesome isn't it? No the real training is much of a nightmare then of the glamour. Clearly the reason why people quit in the later stages.  But I was crazy, so i continued and came out to be the strong girl who at least managed to do her first flight, though I was throwing up almost the whole flight. Yes, I know sounds terrible and you guys must be thinking that I should've been taught how to not throw up while in flight. Clearly I wasn't born Cabin crew, so cut some slack there please ! 

Nevertheless, I reached to my destination Jaipur from where I had to start flying. During my flying in Jaipur, I met really horrifying Supervisors, threw up in almost every flight and had some after flight discussions almost everyday. That wasn't because of my ability to perform, it was mainly due to the high expectations set by the company and the assumptions made by the supervisors that everyone should be perfect from the beginning of the there flying career. Not quite pleasant experience I must say, because I ended up crying after every flight and couldn't show it to my family because you remember what my mom did for this job, don't you? So I kept Puking, kept crying and kept on being bullied by some very no so pleasing personalities. 

I then moved to New Delhi Base, wow ! I was home finally. Started my flights and realised it was worse situation there. I was then being bullied because I was taught something different in Jaipur and in Delhi that's not the trend. Oh boy! I understood that either I quit or I fight. What do you guys think I did? Correct, damn right I fought back. I came out like a phoenix from the ashes and did what I was best in, not looks ! My hard work guys, details !! 

I was so happy after what I did and experienced with aviation. I continued to fly with them until the next airline and never regretted my decision. My mom was satisfied with my performance, got her jewellery out and I bought the first car in my family. So what do you guys think, dreaming is mere wishful thinking or they can turn into real world? 

Continue Dreaming everyone !! I will share my rest of the journey in my next blog. Chao till then !