Stuck in KL

Musings from Dennis #85: “Please disembark”, the captain announced on the intercom after we sat there in the plane for close to an hour. I was leaving Kuala Lumpur on a public holiday morning (Diwali) after business meeting days prior, and was looking forward to taking part in a charity event that day back in Singapore. Something was indeed wrong with the plane’s wheels, I was told. There was frenzy and anger among passengers with some really misbehaving and abusive. But I had this surprise thought, despite missing my young family back home - maybe there is a message here for me and that is to take it easy and rest. I sat at the airport lounge resting and reading magazines etc (those days our phones were not that smart) and 8 hours later at 5pm, I boarded the replacement flight – having missed an entire day of events but found myself quite rested actually and surprisingly calm. We can’t always be in control of what is happening to us but we can certainly control how we would respond to those happenings.