“Three things I learned while my plane crashed”. The title captivated my attention. This clip was only five minutes but it was long enough to move my heart. Ric Elias is the speaker and he talked about the three things that changed in his life. Those changes were not novel or provocative. However, they are actually profound and so important because they can be applied to everyone. As I was heeding, his words affected my attitude.
The three changes he mentioned were urgency, relationship, and “being a good dad”. To explain details about them, the urgency here means not to postpone anything to some point at the future because the future might not come. The saying “I collect bad wines” articulated what he wanted to say. This part of the speech made me to reflect myself. I thought I was very diligent but come to think about it, I am very lax person after all.
Ric Elias also strongly spoke about the relationship between other people especially one that you love. He said, “I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that matter.” This phrase truly shows the importance of amity and the relationship between inside the family. I was disparaged after I heard this phrase because it was concise yet astute. This made me to contrite about my past when I was having conflicts with the “people that matter”.
The last thing he talked about was “being a good dad.” At first, because I am not a dad of a son or a daughter, I felt somewhat apathy to what he said. But then as I watched this video second time, I realized that this statement was relevant to me. Although this part is very similar to the second part, he wanted to emphasize the importance of the family. When he thought that the plane crash was inevitable, he was not afraid of his death. Sadness was the only thing in his mind and it was because he could no longer see his children grow up. Because I am staying at a boarding school, I can partly relate to feeling of not able to see his family.
Ric was very candid during his speech which is the reason why this speech is so laudable. People do not know what will happen in the future. One thing that is sure is that nobody will live an incessant life. To not condone any regret later on, people should learn from Ric’s changes in his attitude. I believe a pivotal change would happen if you really enhance yourself by accommodating those lessons.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT THE PLANE CRASH:
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-15/us/new.york.plane.crash_1_air-traffic-controllers-bird-strike-pilot?_s=PM:US
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT THE PLANE CRASH:
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-15/us/new.york.plane.crash_1_air-traffic-controllers-bird-strike-pilot?_s=PM:US
Sometimes the shortest ones are the best ones, as they get to the heart of the matter. Although you are not a father, you do have one, so you can definitely see your father from Ric's perspective.
답글삭제Good use of the SAT words most of the time, but sometimes they are awkward near the beginning. Heeding and many of the adjectives are used a bit off kilter. Good work though.