IF LIFE IS A (PLANE) JOURNEY, THEN ….
I often refer to my life as a journey and forget that there have been and are so many people on this journey with me. Perhaps I should modify this refrain and state rather: “My life is a PLANE journey”, for so it was and is.
As I pause and reflect on this communal voyage, I am amazed how many others have made this trip so awesome. Passengers have got on and off my PLANE, changed their seats to be nearer and further from me, some occasionally taking over the driving or encouraging me to stop. I have been taken to places I had never imagined. Sometimes I was the only one on my plane, which was intense because of its lonesomeness. Then there were a few nuisance travel-mates who pulled me off track and/or damaged the engine of my plane. But at the end of the day, I am grateful for EVERY fellow passenger on my life’s plane journey, the wonderful and the troublesome.
What is so inspiring is the wonderful tapestry of serendipitous views and events that my companions shared. As I look at the seating plan, I was generally in the economy class and occasionally got bumped up to business or first class. Who were those pilots that strongly influenced my journey? Who were the stewards who made the trip so comfortable? Who sat in the seats beside, in-front and behind me?
Wow, what an amazing cast of fellow travellers have been part of my continuing journey. As I pause and take inventory, there are fifteen or twenty passengers that I can name that I am profoundly grateful to for sharing my journey. I love savouring their companionship and what it brought with it. And then there are the thousands of others who paths I crossed who added marvellous colour and depth to the scenery.
So, who are your traveling companions on your plane journey of life? What is your seating plan? What can you bring to another’s life journey to make their journey more joyful? Once in the while, stop looking out the window and watch your fellow passengers!
Do make your life journey and plane ride a trip that works for you. Relish the fellowship and banter of your traveling buddies. And let go a little about the destination, provided you keep going in the general direction that lines up with your life mission and purpose.
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