13 Your emotions run rampant.
Don’t judge the person in the seat next to you for sobbing like a freshly broken-up teenager. In a survey conducted by Virgin Atlantic, 55 percent of travelers reported experiencing “heightened emotions while flying” and 41 percent of men noted that they had “buried themselves in blankets to hide tears in their eyes from other passengers.” As one Atlantic writer explained it: “You’ve finally reached the end of what was likely a full day of getting to the airport, and could have been weeks of preparing, or even years of an important life phase culminating in an end and new beginning. And that’s the time to have a good, long cry.”
