Speaker reflects on Heathrow gate delays as a metaphor for waiting through grief, shares Nora’s and Kelly’s thoughts about moving on with grief and grief as evidence of love, and offers perspective on being stuck until new opportunities arrive.
Cadre: Welcome to Heathrow Airport in, in London. Heathrow is one of the busiest airports on the planet. Here's the fun thing about Heathrow and some other airports of this size. It's hard to realize how big or how complex a system is like an airport.
On Fridays we often talk about the act of grieving. Kelly says that grief is the evidence of loving stuff or appreciating stuff. J.C. says you are forced to be where you are with what you got until there's another opportunity to go somewhere else. If you are struggling with the idea of freedom today, he offers some positivity.
Hey there, Cadre. How are we doing today? I hope you are good and welcome to welcome to Heathrow Airport in, in London. Heathrow is one of the busiest airports on the planet. A few months ago, when there is some flight stuff going on, they had to divert every single plane from Heathrow and there's a, there's a video map on online you can find where all these planes are flying to Heathrow and then all of a sudden they all had to be sent somewhere else. Good morning. Speak. Wonder how are you doing?
It's kind of a fun video to watch because sometimes it's hard to realize how big or how complex a system is like an airport until you see it have to work differently in a moment. But hey, I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. It's nice and early today over in the States and I am excited to get home to see my dogs in however long it's going to take. Here's the fun thing about Heathrow and some other airports of this size and ones that operate like what I'm about to share.
So if you're like me, I like getting places early. So I will often go to the airport and go sit at my gate. The first time I was in London, I learned that they don't tell you your gut and your gate at this airport until pretty close to your flight. So everybody lives in this kind of middle space. And then once your gate is announced, then you can go to your gate. This is a kind of a traffic control technique. But you know, on Fridays we often talk about the act of grieving, the act of losing stuff, people, experiences, opportunities, chapters of your life.
And pretty much every Friday, I share two thoughts, one from my friend Kelly and one for my friend Nora. First of all, Nora says you don't move on from grief, you move on with it. And Kelly says that grief is the evidence of loving stuff or appreciating stuff. And that even though grief is inevitably going to exist for a chapter of your life, love is going to transcend all of your life and live well past that grief. But whenever I'm at Heathrow, I'm always reminded of waiting, right. I can't go to where I want to get to right now.
I can't go to the next place right now because it hasn't been told to me where that is. And I think the grieving and losing journey is often a lot like that. You are forced to be where you are with what you got until there's another opportunity to go somewhere else and exist what you have there. So even though some people are celebrating independence today or freedom today, I invite you to go ahead and see that there's a lot of opportunities in life where you won't feel free, where you won't feel liberated, where you won't feel in control.
And I'm not going to say, and that's okay, or that's good, but I will say that that is so. C. your gate is. And I can go there. But until.
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