What gets your attention?

Sitting in the window seat of a 747 I catch myself being in complete and total awe of the beauty below me. In this perfect moment, seeing the snow covered Rocky Mountains with a clean crisp bright blue sky surrounding the most amazingly perfect white puffy clouds....I felt...peace. Real peace. The kind that comes from BEing in the moment, bearing witness to such beauty. As others around me engaged with a new-found friend, read the trashy magazine, worked on laptops, slept, ignored the crying baby...put their tray tables in the upright position...I took a moment to look around realizing that within my view, I was the only one bearing witness to this...this amazing vista from the airplane window. I turned my attention back to my feeling of peace and as we flew through one of those perfect fluffy clouds...the plane started to bump, bounce, fall, rise, shake...and I laughed. Out loud. It felt like the tilt-a-whirl I used to love as a kid. It was so frickin cool! I took a second look around and saw that NOW everyone was in the "same" moment I was. Not feeling what I felt, but their attention was on the same thing. And I thought to myself, how interesting...."Will it always take the 'bump,' the discomfort, the fear, to get peoples' attention? As I turned back toward the window, watching the ground ascend, I thought, "I hope not."