The Right Place at the Right Time
October 20, 2009
Despite the turmoil and complications that seem to surround us at times, there are occasions when things fall exactly into place. Learn about a time when this actually saved someone’s life.
Just when you think things are spinning out of control and it seems like there is no order in the universe, a series of events can occur where things just seem to fall into place exactly right.
Several weeks ago, we learned that a colleague of one of our friends had been in a terrible airplane crash in a private jet which he had been flying. He survived the crash, but was in intensive care, in very serious condition.
When we checked in a few days later to see how he was doing, we got a more complete picture of what had happened.
It seemed that the plane went down in a lake, and the pilot was trapped inside the cockpit. A passerby happened to see the crash and dove in to try and free the pilot before he drowned. He swam down the first time, but was unable to find him. He went down a second time, but still had no luck. On the third attempt, he returned with the pilot who was barely alive.
Clearly, you would have to be a strong swimmer to do something like this, and as it turned out, this passerby was a retired Navy SEAL. It gets even more amazing. He had terminal cancer and was supposed to have died six months prior to the crash.
A week later, the pilot was awake in his hospital bed, making phone calls, and on the road to recovery.
The sequence of events that occurred that day was incredible. A plane crashes in a lake where a retired Navy SEAL just happens to be walking and who was not expected to live this long.
It certainly makes you stop and think about what you are doing with your life, and about the impact you can have on other people. Maybe you won’t be the one to jump into a lake to save someone’s life, but each one of us touches many lives in the course of a day. Are you doing what you can to make the most of each opportunity?
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