The rest of the journey, however, can feel like a tedious lesson in the ills of modernity, from the predawn x-ray screening to the sad airport malls selling clusters of keepsakes.
So, instead of contemplating that buttery dessert, we should be conscious of those domestic issues we just can't solve.
The brain is a space of near infinite possibility, which means that it spends a lot of time and energy choosing what not to notice.