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ONE TEAM ONE VISION I I I
It was June 15, and in two days I would be turning thirty. I was
insecure about entering a new decade of my life and feared that my best
years were now behind me.
My daily routine included going to the
gym for a workout before going to work. Every morning I would see my
friend Nicholas at the gym. He was seventy-nine years old and in
terrific shape. As I greeted Nicholas on this particular day, he
noticed I wasn’t full of my usual vitality and asked if there was
anything wrong. I told him I was feeling anxious about turning thirty.
I wondered how I would look back on my life once I reached Nicholas’s
age, so I asked him, "What was the best time of your life?"
Without hesitation, Nicholas replied, "Well, Joe, this is my philosophical answer to your philosophical question:
"When
I was a child in Austria and everything was taken care of for me and I
was nurtured by my parents, that was the best time of my life.
"When I was going to school and learning the things I know today, that was the best time of my life.
"When I got my first job and had responsibilities and got paid for my efforts, that was the best time of my life.
"When I met my wife and fell in love, that was the best time of my life.
"The
Second World War came, and my wife and I had to flee Austria to save
our lives. When we were together and safe on a ship bound for North
America, that was the best time of my life.
"When we came to Canada and started a family, that was the best time of my life.
"When I was a young father, watching my children grow up, that was the best time of my life.
"And
now, Joe, I am seventy-nine years old. I have my health, I feel good
and I am in love with my wife just as I was when we first met. This is
the best time of my life."
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Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is
really important. We may
fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that
has
happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.
Charles Plumb, a US Naval Academy graduate, was a jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat
missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and
parachuted into enemy lands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese
prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience.
One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came
up and said, "You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft
carrier Kitty Hawk.
You were shot down!" "How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.
"I packed your
parachute," the man replied.
Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it
worked!" Plumb assured him, "It sure did. If your chute hadn’t worked, I
wouldn’t be here today."
Plumb couldn’t sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says, "I kept
wondering what
he might have looked like in a Navy uniform: A white hat, a bib in the back, and bell
bottom
trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said good morning,
how are you or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot, and he was just a
sailor."
Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels
of
the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in
his
hands each time the fate of someone he didn’t know.
Now, Plumb asks his audience, "Who’s packing your parachute?"
Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. Plumb
also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down
over enemy territory - he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his
emotional
parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before reaching
safety. His
experience reminds us all to prepare ourselves to weather whatever storms lie ahead. As
you
go through this week, this month, this year… recognize people who pack your parachute!
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