What would you do today if you were on Flight 1549?

Just a few minutes ago I was watching some of the survivors from US Air flight 1549 that was so skillfully put down in the Hudson River yesterday... they were speaking with amazing gratitude about the pilot,  about the fellow passengers. They seemed to have stunning clarity about the world around them, about life, people, connection.

I got to thinking about how the world would look to me had I been a survivor of that flight.

- What would I do today?
- How would I feel?
- How might people
- How might I be connected with people all around me?

A wake up call is all about awareness. When we are most fully awake--which is most aware--the world is an amazing, vivid powerful place. It's almost entirely different than the patterned life of subtle grew we most live in.

To be awake is to be alive and to be alive is to feel the life force that is all around us.

So, I ask you... if you were a survivor of flight 1549 what would you do today? How would you most fully embrace life? How would you feel about life, about people?

Think about if for a few minutes. Take it in...then do that and feel that way. Fact is, if you're reading this you ARE one of the lucky ones, you too are a survivor. And while the proximity of death my seem to be much closer for the passengers than any of us--you should know it's but a razor's edge by now.

Celebrate life every day and do that which gives you that feeling you most want to feel.

Here's to your LIFE at Full Strength!

Comments

[Mrs Jones]

Great article despite all the typos.

[Bodhi]

The quotes below of passengers on board, serve to exemplify how precious this gift of life really is. It's not to be taken for granted, i am grateful for every day alive on this earth!

Carl Bavarian, a 62-year-old international investment banker from South Carolina, said, "We all won the lottery of life."

"I thought we were going to die. I kept thinking to myself, 'I never got to tell my family I love them every day,'" said grandmother Elizabeth McHugh, 64, of Charlotte, N.C.