Saturday, June 12, 2004

PMA is a must-have attitude!

Yesterday my flight was delayed.

At 16.20 the ground staff at the airport asked all passengers to board the plane. By 16.30, all the passengers have been seated. I buckled my seat belt...READY TO GO.
Looooooooo 10 minutes....20 minutes....nothing, the plane hadn't moved an inch. The passengers started to get restless.

30 minutes....one ground staff boarded the plane and started counting the passengers
35 minutes....another ground staff started counting the passengers
40 minutes....another count
45 minutes....two ground staffs made another count...yep yep 1,2,3,4...
50 minutes....whooooooaaa another count!!!
60 minutes....finally they announced that we are ready to GO! HAHAHAHA

While they were counting the passengers, there were a few passengers who were annoyed by the delay, but there were those who decided to be positive and made some funny remarks.

"hey...anyone boarded the wrong plane??"
"how about everybody started counting loudly 1,2,3 from the back and help the ground staff count??"
"show your ticket please? boarding pass everyone!!"
"ground staff...do you need help counting?"
"any stowaway here?"
"here we go...another computer breakdown...back to manual counting! hey, does anyone know to count manually?"

Most passengers started laughing...it was great and fun being in the middle of it!!

At first I was annoyed that the plane was delayed, but after those funny remarks I was glad that the plane was delayed. I haven't had so much fun lately and definitely not during a delayed flight. HAHAHAHA

There are so many things that we can learn from this incident:
1. positive mental attitude (PMA) is extremely important...we can even have fun during most uncomfortable times!
2. PMA is a choice...we can choose to be positive in any situation, be glad and happy. Sometimes it is difficult to be positive, but a wise man once said "Difficult doesn't mean that it cannot be done!"
3. Join the fun! Smile! Laugh! HAHAHAHA
4. Positive environment can help you to be more positive, but negative environment can influence you to be negative...so choose your friends wisely!
5. Remember the basics...because sometimes we forget that we need to get back to basics when things don't work out. We tend to be so dependent on technology nowadays and we take so many things for granted.

Tips:
if your plane is delayed...choose PMA and have fun!
if things don't go as you've planned...choose PMA and be glad!
if your computer crashes...choose PMA and ....?

WHATEVER HAPPENS, ALWAYS CHOOSE PMA my friends!

LEARN AND GROW!

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