Comedy Around the World stops at the airport JFK, en route to Istanbul.  As we waited for our gate assignment to become available, I looked out the airplane window at all the planes.  Some were exotic, like Air India and El Al.  Some were common-sense, like Delta.  So many differences, but all with the same goal--to take passengers to their destination, and to make a lot of money doing so. 

We are like this, too.  We're all human, but with different perspectives--and these different perspectives create our different senses of humor.  When people learn that I'm a comedian, usually they say, "You don't look like a comedian."  I tell them, borrowing from humorist Jeannie Roberts, "I've been sick."  Then they launch into the most crass and obscene jokes, adding, "This would be great for your act."  I tell them, "I've never been quite that sick."  

The different labels we put on people--and on ourselves--translates into what we can expect from others--and ourselves.  What if we just focused on the destination without looking at the outside of our own airplane?  Would we expect great things of ourselves?  What do you think?