Dec 20/17
Do you remember an exciting moment you experienced as a kid? That later on in life become magical and you feel a sense of value of that exciting moment. These moments at the time are small yet combing them all together have a large impact on you and our communities.
Usually I don't comment directly on negative observations of our current society, yet this has been on my mind. I feel I need to share with the goal to provoke some additional thoughts on how to improve our current environment. The observation is that in general the things in society that were once special are either fading or totally gone. With these moments gone the yest for life is fading and one of the results of this, is we are becoming drones anticipating our next output from our phones.
One example in particular of these moments of disappearing I recognized on my recent trip down to Belize. I was sitting near the front of the plan prior to our departure watching folks board and walk past. I noticed a young boy around 8 walk on without a glance to the cockpit. At first I didn't think more of it but about half way to Belize, I realized in that moment some brief magic was taken way from that young boy and he had no idea what it was.
When I was a young boy, prior to going on my first flight there was such excitement. As others told me stories that on most flights young children are asked if they would like to come visit the pilots while in flight on the flight deck. As the days slowly counted down to the my first trip to Disney World with my parents and sister, I could hardly contain my excitement. I was hoping my sister and I would be lucky enough to be invited up for a tour.
Finally the day arrived and I say roughly half way back in the plane in a aisle seat. I was in awe as I stared up at the open cockpit door with all the activity that was taking place. Then we took off into the air and I am sure my eyes must have been as large as saucers watching the pilots work. Then finally my invite came as the flight attendant asked if I would like to have a tour of the flight deck. I gladly said yes and was taken up to the front of the plane. I stared in amazement as the pilots welcomed me to their work area and explained the generalities of what was going on.
To me that moment provided more value than the Disney World experience. When I arrived home I talked about the event to others and still to this day the magic has remained from that experience. Now this same experience for the younger generation has disappeared and so has the multiplier effect of this moment. Although not a large single event, yet when changes like these do occur they do have a negative impact on the multiplier effect and our communities.
Can you think of moments when you were young that provided you with a similar experience to you? Are these moments still active or have they been closed to our younger generation? What can we do together to start building once again the environment of special and magic?
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