Value of Life @ 30000 ft & Above

Just about time when I haven't even finished showing the real face of humans in the role of a cabin crew, as how much they crib and complain about life and time that they spend on board. World got  news flashing about catastrophy happened with Malaysian airline aircraft, which is still missing and nothing concrete came up as they found the wreckage or not. Was it a crash or a hijack? Malfunction of an equipment or some nervous breakdown of the pilot itself. The room for the conspiracy theories is widely open. And believe me one will spare no chance for a dime to speculate as what would have happened up in the air that day.

I am not here to discuss as what could have happened, I am not here to blame the airline as to how come they didn’t come to know that the aircraft was missing? When every airline monitors every single aircraft in the air on a simple radar.

Even stupid enough smart phones have this application to track the aircraft, even if it is parked somewhere in this world. I am not here to blame the govt. of any country as for how come there is no concrete statement even after 3 days to the accident?

Ever since the air travel started the industry have seen some of the tremendous accidents in the history. We learn from our mistakes and then we improve, as we were getting a bit complacent with the fact that air travel is safe. Yeah, it slapped us right through the face waking us up from an easy dream to the harsh reality. So, if I am not here to talk about the lapses leading to the mishap, then what m I trying to say ?

Let me show u something first….

This was the crew list of the 12 crew member including the pilot and the co-pilot of the aircraft that left so many families into tears and sorrow. The one thing that caught my eye was the briefing room no. 6, I was a crew myself and all I cared about was which briefing room am I going to . Often happened that I used to forget the destination where I was going, but the most important was to find the bunch of people in a briefing room headed for the same place as mine.

Heading to the briefing room safely answering the safety and first aid questions, discussing the service and cribbing through as why did I get galley again? Gosh ! it’s a full load!!, Making plans as what we will do in Peking, some would have made plans to shop, some for clubbing and some must have had plans to get one of those China’s best massage.

There is nothing wrong in doing that right? The job has its own perks, and that’s life. But do we realize while making our plans to call one more time to the people we love, was it enough, or do we want one more only one more phone call.

Or working in an human touch industry has made us stone cold that we often forget about the most important people around us. . Or taking an oath of saving life of everyone around us in an aircraft, makes people around our life meaningless?

In the age of technology connecting to people is so easy that in our day to day life we don’t realize that we are hushing people off. With a very comfortable reasonability that I will do it later. But when the time arrives just one call looks as if the world, one look of the people whom you love, one touch, one kiss, one more goodbye, all these material things from LV bags to Rolex watches (water proof up to 300m), all of a sudden looks meaningless. All some wanna do is to call your mother and hear her, call  your wife, a message to type. An overwhelming feeling of why I wasted these years cribbing of what I had, I always had enough. But today I may beg for that one call.

Humans complain and that makes them humans, anyone who doesn't actually call themselves as Saints the one who achieved salvation somewhere. But as a cabin crew, don’t you agree that the sanctity of life is in being with a flaw, life is not perfect, we can’t make it, life doesn't wait for later.

All we do as a crew is to either complain or be complacent, gossip is a religion, the place where you work is the worst and the country you live in is never the best. Best is what someone else has? 

We don’t have time for wasteful subjects like LOVE, empathy is only shown when we are paid for it. Smiles are thrown randomly to a lucky winner for it, Glass of water depends on how sharp is our memory, considerate friends are either ones who get us something from the destination they are going or the ones who can listen to our bullshit book full of unsatisfactory remarks and still be quite. Love is only shown most often in layover hotel room,  parties are only with strange people the ones who you met less then 12 hours before.

Native countries become blurred which lack opportunities, mothers bug us off as they keep on nag us for the information like have we eaten on time or not. All of a sudden father is showing us ego as, why he never calls so why should I? Paris becomes the best place to eat and China to shop, Sanctity of life appears only in USA, and the best beach in the world is in Maldives. We get the capability to chose, and we start to live in an illusion.

The value of that, one call …. One more time….. just once…. To say I love you …….the importance of things and people around you in life is realized when it's slipping out of your hands.

Let’s pledge to us today that we will make that one call everyday and we will not leave even one opportunity to tell someone that how much we love them. Stop the cribbing business and spread that smile. Touch the untouched and help the one who needs it. Let’s pledge that we will be better race of people and we will redefine the SANCTITY OF LIFE.

P.S. This is my hearty condolences to the families of the deceased in the Malaysian airline crash. But I am still in hope that there are people out there who survived. May god be with us.