A red-eye flight gets delayed, the speaker loses his seat, and someone's loud phone call pushes him close to snapping. Instead of confronting anyone, he moves away, calms down, and makes content about it. The point: you can't control the chaos, but you can control how you react.
Airport Chronicles. Standing in line, red-eye flight. They called my group, and then after about 10 minutes they said flight's delayed, one pilot didn't show up. Can you imagine how agitated everybody became? Uh, we're tired, you know, it's late at night and people ready to go. Then I move and find a seat. Kind of hard to find a seat because a lot of people out here. Find a seat, had a bag of chips, finishing the chips, pop up real quick to go to the garbage can, turn around, this couple swooped and took my seat. Of course I want to go check them about it, but I know I'm agitated. I know I'm a little emotionally charged, and I know when emotions are high, logic is low. Took a purposeful pause, recalibrated, went and found another quiet spot. This dude comes over there, turns his back to the people, myself included, sitting there and talking hella loud on the phone, disrupting the whole space. Definitely want to tell him to knock it off, but I realized that I'm pretty agitated and I'm tired. So what does the EI guy do? I make content out of it. I redirect my energy, and maybe it'll help someone, uh, Choose peace over proving a point, putting some space in between your responses, and just always remembering that you're responsible for how you act no matter how you feel. And let's not get it twisted, I'm very frustrated right now. You realize that what happened is out of my control. I can only manage the way I react to those situations. So I found another private corner where no one's around And I'll wait for this plane to come here shortly and get ready for a nice nap on this overnight flight. So I thought I'd share, maybe it'll help you think some things through before you make a decision. Even though when you feel like somebody is wrong, it doesn't mean that you have to react to it. Protect your peace at all times and at all costs.
I was literally kicked off a Southwest flight before for being disrespectful.
