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.
amazing draft...full of emotions and life
ReplyDeleteamazing!!! it touches me eventhough im not a crew i understand you all guys how hard your work is... salute and respect to all the crew pilots of this flight as you die serving people, and for sure during that hard times you still try all your best to give the best service to all the passenger in this flight!
ReplyDeleteThanks a ton for empathizing. A few more people like you will make crew life so delightful
DeleteThe job is full of pleasure, and bigger power. As they say " with bigger power comes bigger responsibility"
Thanks for appreciating though.
cheers
You started out very nicely... and then you pointed Briefing Room#6 - but what about it!! I see nothing suspicious.... wats the point??
ReplyDeleteBriefings are the most important part of the flying business... I wanted to touch the flying crew members that. When we are proceeding for the briefings we are indifferent of the situations that we might face onboard. As a matter of fact sometimes we even forget the destination, which we later realize after reaching the respective briefing room. Moreover i am not touching any conspiracy theory as what might have happened there? I am just discussing that it's a job which is very delicate and one should never leave a chance to tell there loved once how much they love them?
DeleteLife is short make the most of it
HR..very well said bro..
ReplyDeleteSo true! We get dazzled by looking at the mirror, its too shiny...we cannot even see ourselves! Thanks for your thoughts!
ReplyDeleteLove it..x
ReplyDeleteVERY GOOD POST..SO TRUE...AND WELL PENNED..i WAS EX-CREW AND AGREE WITH YOU IN TOTALITY..
ReplyDeleteAs an ex-crew I must say - you have thoroughly explained the meaning.
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