I took this video on my recent flight on Bhutan Airlines. In it you see a young air stewardess on Bhutan Airlines calming a terrified passenger (baby), who was screaming out of pain.

Probably his ear drum was hurting as the plane descended to Kolkatta. Minutes later he stopped crying and she handed him back to his mother.

As someone who has travelled with two young children in the past, and was frowned upon, and even shouted at, on international airlines, it really warmed my heart to witness this on our very own Bhutanese airlines.

Travelling itself is a stress. Travelling with toddlers, even more. You have to worry they may fall sick, run into something, or they may bring down the place itself.

But nothing is worse than adults being annoyed and upset about children being children.

World over, especially in the so-called advanced societies, adults often forget that they were infants once and may have inconvenienced others. Infants can only cry. They can’t speak or reason out. It is natural. Why is it so hard?

The world would be a better place with some compassion and empathy.

I am glad to see our young Bhutanese youth exhibiting these values in the degenerative times.

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