Mrs. Wilson was preparing to take her first flight ever. She was 89 years old and had mixed emotions about the trip, particularly since she ran into a number of issues.
To prevent losing her house key, she hid it in her shoe. As she walked up to the gate, the metal detector started to sound. Because she had no understanding of how these things operated, she was concerned. After being instructed to empty her pockets, she could hear the beeping continuously.
The moment the staff instructed her to store any metal in her possession, she understood that the key had actually landed her in danger. She had never been to an airport before, so she was lost and feeling confused.
Fortunately, a coworker helped her find her flight. As she stepped into the plane, a young man saw her business class ticket. He then started talking to her and thought he could secretly switch seats with her in economy class.
Luckily, Mrs. Wilson knew where her seat was, and when she did, she thanked the young guy for helping her find it. Sadly, the aggressive man who was supposed to sit next to her refused to do so because she was an elderly woman.
He questioned how Mrs. Wilson, a plain-appearing and modest old woman, could afford such a seat. Fortunately, other passengers intervened and told the man to apologize for how he had treated her.
He expressed his regret and even helped her retrieve some of the pictures that had tumbled from her bag. He questioned whether Mrs. Wilson’s son was in one of the pictures when he first saw it.
She said she knew, but she also said he wasn’t standing by her side. The man asked about her son’s destiny, wanting to know more. Many of the people leaned closer to listen as Mrs. Wilson continued to recount her life’s events.
She started off by describing how her father was a military member who was killed in action. She was left alone, along with her mom and mentally challenged brother Peter. When Mrs. Wilson, whose first name was Dorothy, was 28 years old, she met the partner of her life, a shepherd called Jack.
When tragedy struck, they were deeply in love and preparing to create a family. One day Peter set the home on fire, and Jack went into the blaze to try to save him.
Sadly, they both passed away. Dorothy was upset, and so was her mom. They wept for a very long time. Unable to handle the loss, Dorothy’s mother went wild and started abusing and accusing her daughter of being responsible for all that had transpired.
Meanwhile, shortly after Jack’s passing, Dorothy learned she was expecting. She was scared for the life of her son, a baby boy named Kevin, after she gave birth to him because his mom would frequently stab her.
Before deciding to give Kevin to an orphanage, Dorothy thought about her options carefully. A few years later, after her mother passed away, she made the decision to track out Kevin, but nobody was willing to give her any information about him. Only that he had been adopted was known to her. Many years later, Dorothy learned where her son was, due to a volunteer organization that specialized in looking for lost family members.
Kevin, the pilot, heard this and said something over the intercom. Dear passengers, this is your captain speaking. Although our flight is about to end, our lives do not have to.
Even while there are ups and downs in our lives, there is no justification for thinking that some people are luckier than others. Everyone listened closely as he added, “We all have possibilities from birth, and our lives are defined by how we use them without making mistakes.
If we search for the guilty when there are none, we won’t discover the joy of forgiving, he continued. To see the mother and son’s reunion, many passengers awaited the plane’s landing.