You know to volunteer that you, ” love people” and “love to travel” when interviewing for the position of Flight Attendant , but the big question is, “Are you flexible?” The same could be asked in life. I found out unfortunate news about my Aunt……. my Mom’s sister, a beautiful woman, a mother of seven, an amazing story teller, a painter, a gardener, an extremely strong and active woman, a woman who has never flown on an airplane…(I tried)… a woman with whom I share a birthday (40 years difference…she drove my Mom…a single mother in 1969, to the hospital that day. We’ve shared our day ever since.) I have found out that she is not well. Our Birthday will be a big one this June, her 80th, my 40th. I hate to think of not celebrating it together.

As you read in my last post, my husband and I were planning a special trip, and this is where the flexibility comes in, this is life, and I have learned a lot about life being a Flight Attendant. Flexibility and patience. Those two things can get you through some hurdles, and believe me, you acquire those two skills within six months of flying or you won’t make it. So the trip with my honey is postponed and I’m ok with that because I’m flexible and because I’m actually grateful. Grateful that I have benefits that will allow me to fly home and spend quality time with my Aunt, grateful that we have that time, grateful that I have such an amazing and amazingly large family to spend time with. Grateful that Lucy will spend time with her many cousins. Something I am sorry she doesn’t get to do more of, I have 22 first cousins on my mother’s side of the family alone.

And the other thing about flying and life…well, you never know where it will take you. My first overnight trip as a domestic Flight Attendant, took me to London, having never left the country prior to that, it was an amazing trip, I will never forget……and just as I didn’t know where that first trip would take me…..I also don’t know what tomorrow will bring, my Aunt may be here to celebrate our Birthday…….and who knows she may even get on an airplane with me, you just never know, and that’s the beauty of life. I just know that I never regret my flexibility because it allows me to go with the natural flow of my life.