How Dana Air crash was pre-planned

We’ve all seen the faces and stories behind the victims of Dana Air, and thanks to social media and the connectivity that technology has brought, we all somehow know someone that knows someone that was a victim. My cousin said he knew 15 people (that’s 10% of the manifest), my husband’s friend knew 10 people, my mum knows the father of the 2 sisters in Houston and the list goes on. I understand what people who knew the victims would be going through- I went through just that on September 11, 2001. I didn’t know any 9/11 victims personally, but as the personal stories unfolded I experienced grief, the fear of death, of losing a loved one. I grappled with the meaning of life for almost a year and reevaluated everything I believed in. The outcome of the process was how I finally made my peace with my death, but I discovered that was easier than making peace with the death of a loved one. I eventually came to terms with a few things over the course of 11 years:

-         Despite all the postulation about the after-life and what my “religion” had taught me, no one really knows what happens in the afterlife – it’s yet a mystery-only zombies have that answer and I am yet to meet one

-         As hard as it is to accept, no one dies 'before' their time. We all have different timelines and the mystery is that we do not know what the end of that is

-         I will continually strive to communicate and maintain a strong soul connection/relationship with loved ones so that when they crossover that relationship still remains- as our souls never die. I think most people struggle with this believing that it is the end of the relationship –I choose to believe that it evolves into another kind of relationship

-         I have only one life to live (yet again formed by my religion and belief- so others might differ), so I choose to  live it the best way I know how- and not how others think I should

The story behind the Dana Air crash is this-regardless of all the “how could this happen?” or “this could have been avoided” a script had been written and it was orchestrated that all the victims at that appointed time, on that day had the sand in their hour glass run out albeit under “tragic” circumstances. There’s a verse in Ecclesiastes in the bible that says it is better to go to the house of the mourning than the feasting for that is the end of ALL men.

Regardless of your religion or belief, I urge you today to open up yourself to love a little deeper, hug a little tighter, forgive a little quicker, say more I love yous and to embrace life by making your peace with death.