Willem Verbeek

Review of Vereniging Vrienden van Maastr...

What a relief, so uncluttered, simple and simple w...

What a relief, so uncluttered, simple and simple when it comes to this. Two halls, arriving on the right, leaving on the left, seeing everything at a glance. Few people, no crowds, no hectic, it seems that everything slows down. I had all the controls and now I am on hold in the departure hall, a slow-motion film is constantly taking place right in front of me.

Everything that now has to do with flying is actually wrong. What I see when I look around shows little evidence of this: an old, somewhat overpowering man has been struggling frantically with the suitcases and luggage for more than twenty minutes, next to me two young people are happily springing up when they see them outside able to smoke, most around me are left waiting for their departure and look glassy as if they are stunned in their own deepest self.

There are minuses I hear next to me: the WiFi and the chargers do not work and that is annoying and bad. You then fall silent, cannot do anything anymore and you are cut off from the world. Flying always has a delay, until you are suddenly called to board. That is now the case for us, a buzz, many are afraid of missing something and quickly stand at the gate. A little too early, there too the wait will certainly last 20 minutes and after that a lot of waiting will follow.

The world is a waiting room and everyone is "Waiting for Godot", read Samuel Becket.