The Lesson at 30,000 Feet: How a Stranger’s Comment on a Plane Changed My View on Boundaries and Kindness

The Lesson at 30,000 Feet: How a Stranger’s Comment on a Plane Changed My View on Boundaries and Kindness

Airplanes are strange places. You’re suspended miles above the ground, packed shoulder to shoulder with people you’ve never met, all of you sharing recycled air and unspoken rules about eye contact and armrests.

On one such flight, I learned a lesson I didn’t expect—from a stranger I would never see again.

It started as a small moment.