The Plane Truth
Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS
So, I’m on an airplane and I have no idea what is keeping it up in the air. Other than, the cute pilot I saw boarding 20 minutes before me.
I know that may be a simplistic thought, but I’m no engineer. Therefore, I’m guessing even if it were explained to me, I’d still think it’s pretty crazy, that without a road under us, we’re staying up there.
Perhaps, it helps that we are accelerating so fast forward that the plane doesn’t have a minute to think of going in any other direction?! At least that’s what I’m banking on.
Which brings me to the times that they announce we are in a “holding pattern”! What do they mean by we are in a holding pattern?! Who’s holding us?! We are hundreds of miles away from any super powered weight-lifting human being, or any kind of industrial lift, for that matter. So, what do they mean they’re in a holding pattern? What’s holding them?
This is a little disturbing!
Are they just waiting up there trying to see what comes next? Couldn’t they have planned all that before I got on the plane.
It’s kind of like the old cartoons- where a character is running and running through the air. As long as he keeps going, he’s fine. However, the moment he stops and looks down, he panics and plummets.
Well, a plane doesn’t actually work that way. There is some science behind all the aspects that keep it going.
Holding patterns are actually in the plan for when things get a little funky.
So, where are we right now friends?
Holding pattern.
We are figuring things out.
We’ve got some unprecedented challenges and that feels somewhat-CORRECTION- more than somewhat, dis-regulating.
Well maybe, there is one thought you can parachute on to. There is a super powered weightlifter that can pull us out of this holding pattern into forward motion. That power is operating behind the scenes.
We are not completely dependent on the pilot, or even the automatic pilot, or even the big control tower. We’ve got connections in even bigger places. The giant space center in the sky!
While the shaky stuff is going on…. It’s a time to up our game. To take care of us then family, to be that good friend and neighbor, to decide to be that better version of us from here on in. Not just to wait it out!!!
So, stay in your seat or hold on tight to your parachute, if that’s where you opted to go. But remember, when the superstation stimulates a holding pattern, it’s a reminder to figure some things out, rather than to just keep plodding along as you were before.
Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com
