How to Handle the Turbulence in Life

I’m a frequent flyer and travel with my husband on a fairly regular basis. Even with all my travel experience I still take a knuckle-white grip on the armrests when we encounter turbulence. Life is much like flying in an airplane. There is turbulence more often than not, but just like the airplane, we are built to handle the turbulence in life.

Sometimes It’s More Than Turbulence

My uneasiness about turbulence comes with good reason. Twenty-three years ago we crash-landed onto an airfield in Cancun Mexico. At the end of our week-long vacation, we took a little puddle jumper from Cozumel to Cancun. From there we had planned to get on a jetliner headed for home. The aircraft was small but full, with about 25 passengers. As we loaded the plane, a cute girl in a short mini skirt coerced her way onto our sold out flight. Without a seat, the pilots found her a place to sit right in between them on a crate in the cockpit. Blame it on the lack of flight restrictions in Mexico or the pilots trying to impress a girl — either way, we all felt a little uneasy about the situation.