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I have spent the weekend in Canberra in my role as manger with the band The Good. My son Jae is the drummer. Now Canberra is a city where I lived for 6 years, when I was coaching at the Australian Insitute of Sport.

My six years at the AIS provided me with many wonderful opportunities and situations, the one that was and still is the most important to me was the people that I had the opportunity to meet and spend time with.

The weekend trip back to Canberra allowed me to catch up with many of these people that in the past I had spent many hours working and socialising with.

Each of these relationships is very special to me. They are friendships that both parties realise that we dont need to be talking to each other everyday to make the relationship what it is.

However at the same time we know that we are only a phone call away if anything is needed.

It was a weekend that reminded me that life does present us with many wonderful times, opportunities and situations. But none more important than the people we encounter and the subsequent relationships we establish and develop along the way.

I sit here at Adelaide airport waiting for my return flight to Sydney. My interest is raised as I watch people positioning themselves for a non seat allocation flight.

They start to create a queue for what reason I am not entirely sure. I can only guess that it might be so they get a good seat?
The interesting thing is that this is all happening well before the boarding announcement is made. No big deal.

But when that first boarding call is made things change and change fast. Peoples behaviours. manners and personality change for the worse.The queue concept in some peoples mind are in consequential, they just push in to the line where they feel they should. Jumping the queue, and generally pushing others out of the way.
The result being that the patience of those that have tried to do the right thing is being reduced at a great rate.

I can only sit and ponder can these people that are so focussed on getting on this plane can they see the person they have become in their endevour? Or if they can do they really care?

Or then gain maybe I have it wrong and the only thing that matters is getting that premium seat?