Passage A
Everyone, please imagine, a big explosion breaks out as the plane takes us high in the sky.The plane is full of smoke and the engine sounds scary.Two minutes later, the engines are turned off.We are now sitting in a plane with no sound.And we can see:Life is over.
That really happened.In January 2013,I had a frontrow seat on Flight 1549,the plane that crashlanded in the Hudson River in New York.
Now let me tell you the three things I learned when the silence came.
First, I thought about all the people I wanted to reach out to but didn’t.I thought about all the experiences I wanted to have but never did.I no longer wanted to put off anything in life.Second,I really regretted the time I