change..

so i was reading john mayers blog about change and he wrote this..

"CHANGE

I've been thinking about something lately.

Imagine this:

You're on an airplane, sleeping with your head against the window, your heart set on being home this time three hours from now. All of a sudden, something goes very wrong. The plane stops moving across the air and instead starts falling through it. The lights are flickering and the movie is skipping. The plane dips hundreds of feet in seconds, and the yellow cups fall from the ceiling. They're a brighter shade of yellow than you remember, because unlike the demonstration, these cups have never been handled before. "Flight attendants take your seats now", you hear, the pilot's voice trembling over a cacophony of alert tones. You get that smell in the bridge of your nose like you've just been hit with a football. That's what the fear smells like. The plane is going down.

Four more drastic drops in under a minute. People are crying. For all the folklore about how your life flashes before your eyes, you're remarkably fixed on one vision - your parents. They're sleeping at this very moment, in a bedroom so quiet they can hear the clock in the kitchen. And you can see them, clear as can be. You wish you could see a playground or a first kiss, but all you can see is your parents sleeping. Huh. Well, that's that.

Several long minutes go by. Then, all at once, the lights come back on and the plane somehow rights itself. Some people cheer, but most people cry harder. The plane lands about an hour later, and as soon as you feel that touch down - hell, even when you were within 50 feet of the ground and could still technically survive a fall - you realize that however you brokered the deal between you and God worked; you've just been granted life in overtime.

Here's the question: what do you change? Whom do you call that you haven't spoken to in years? Whom do you realize has been toxic to your heart and drop with surprising ease? What trips do you cancel, and what trips do you book? What can't you be bothered with anymore? What's the new you like?



Think about that, and then ask one more question. Why not just change it all right now?

(Working on it...)"


POSTED BY JOHN MAYER AT 04:48 AM FROM SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA


After reading this story I felt that it takes something dramatic and life threatening for oneself to change for the better. If i were in this position stuck on a plane that was ready to fall, i would seriously be thinking of my mom also at that very moment. I wouldnt be thinking of my whole life, i would be thinking of my grandparents and my mom, they are the people that shaped my whole life. i wouldnt be trying to call a girlfriend or friend, i would want to try and reach my mother. and if i did survive something like this there would be a new me, and the new me would want to live each day as if it were its last. i wouldnt wait around for anything..i wouldnt care what my stupid mouth would say, just as long as i could express the feeling that i was having at that very moment, i would want to try new and exciting things without even thinking twice, but since this hasnt happened to me i too will start working on changing...why wait for the world to change when you can start changing yourself today

(working on it as well mr mayer...)