One short last message
When I opened your week's post @galenkp , with the topics assigned for writing in week 172, Weekend-Engagement topics, I was delighted.
I concluded that I could write on the four topics which you gave us (Except this Rock band topic).
But considering the story I heard yesterday from my office colleague, I decided on one of them, airplane crash and one SMS...
A colleague was on a business trip and was returning home by plane.
As there is a lot of air traffic in our country these days, our airline rents planes from regional countries and partners with whom they cooperate.
They rent planes, but they also rent entire crews, pilots and flight attendants.
So it happened that they rented a plane with a pilot who did not know the runway to land on.
My colleague told me how the plane missed the runway a lot and started to land later than it should have.
Probably due to the strength of the wind, he did not manage to land properly and when landing, he moved a lot left and right and shook all over.
In those moments, some of the passengers on the plane were crying, some were hysterical, some were praying, some were shouting...
People were in a panic.
When the plane finally stopped, it was only a few meters away from the green area, which means it reached the end of the runway.
But it still landed and everyone left the plane alive and well.
That agony of theirs lasted only a short time at the moment of landing, meaning a minute or two.
And there certainly wouldn't be time to send even a single text message.
So I will write the story assuming that we are still high in the sky and that there are a few minutes to write an SMS message.
• You're in a plane about to crash (and you'll die) but have time to send a single text message. What is it and who do you send it to?
I have a lot of people in my life with whom I would like to share my last moments and thoughts, but still these three are the most significant and essential in my life.
Love of my life, my mother and my brother.
But I don't think I would address any of the three with a this last message.
They, the most important people in my life, get from me every day love, attention and care.
I don't believe that one message would matter anything more important than what I told them yesterday, two days ago, three days ago...
That I love them and that they mean a lot to me.
It would be more important to leave them instructions how do they get to my property, to my digital property and krypto.
For this reason, I would like to address a short message to my nephew (my own brother's son).
He is a young guy I told about crypto and my Trezor wallet and he would surely understand the message that would contain the codes and some specific seed words.
Probably there would be enough symbols in that text message to write:"I love you all very much".
The location of my Trezor wallet and those 24 words would mean a lot to them in the days that would come after I left...
Should I write in a message to one of them that I love them and that they were everything in my life, or to ensure theirs prosperity for the future, I choose the latter.
One might think that I am not emotional, but I am emotional every day.
Every day I give a kiss, a hug and attention to my loved ones, and so before every trip, be it by plane, car, train, ship... You never know, that's life
And at this last moment I just wanted to be rational and realistic, brave and dignified without crying or nervousness.
After sending that message, I would close my eyes, pray to God and wait for the end.
The end.
I guess it would be difficult to know until faces with the situation right? At least you know now, in case it ever does happen.
I hope it will not 😀
Fingers crossed it does not, of course. Lol.
All of us love to hear this even every day, it is so loving of you that you are sending a message to your nephew.
Why would I send a message to my nephew, telling him how much I loved them, my wife, my mother, my brother, him...? I wouldn't have the heart if at that moment, while I was still alive, my mother or wife would receive such a message... I think I would have died instantly from grief and sorrow, even before the plane crashed...