I woke up
this morning, opened my iPad and staring at me was the article reporting that
Malaysia Airlines' cabin crew are too shocked and depressed to fly.
This is
my letter to all Malaysia Airlines' pilots and cabin crews; and indeed all
pilots and cabin crews of the world's airlines, for the tragedies of MH370 and
MH17 not only affected the crews and captains of Malaysia Airlines, but the
airlines of the world and we as the passengers are equally shocked and
depressed too.
These two
unprecedented tragedies affect the way we think about air travel; that air
travel has been a second nature to most of us, that safety was mostly never on
our minds as we booked our tickets – has now been replaced by fear and doubt
and second thoughts as to the need for us to fly.
I can
only imagine it's even worse for the pilots and cabin crews, as having the
intrinsic knowledge of what possible mishaps that could happen in the air,
which makes it more worrying and fearsome thus amplifying the realms of what is
beyond our control.
Akin to a
doctor who knows all the possible complications of a surgery, which at many
times are more fearful of the surgery than the patients themselves.
It is
with this realisation in mind that I salute all the pilots and cabin crews of
Malaysia Airlines, and personnels of other airlines for having the courage,
strength and the conviction to go on and do the job they do best, and to allow
and enable us, the passengers to fly wherever we need to be, for they realised
too, that their jobs is one of the most important jobs in the world.
It is
because of pilots and cabin crews like you who allow leading experts of the
world in many fields to meet at conferences and meetings to make the world a
safer and healthier place to live.
It is
also because of you, that many lives are saved all over the world by allowing
many advances in the field of medicine and other fields to be presented and
shared and thus improving the lives of many people in the world, people that
you may never meet and may never know and we thank you from the bottom of our
hearts from the citizens of the world.
It is
because of you that businesses flourish and economies improve and it is because
of you that families are united and friendships are established and many important
moments of people’s lives happened.
Never
waver in the fact that you are not significant neither important and indeed
without the pilots and cabin crews of Malaysia Airlines and of the world's
airlines, the world would grind to a devastating stop.
We thank
you for allowing all the wonders of this world to happen, allowing all of us to
have the lives we have now and allowing all of us to undeservedly at times,
experience the beauty of what life has to offer to each of us.
Let me
assure you that these tragedies not only affect all of you, but equally affect
all of us Malaysians, and the citizens of this world and we share the fear, the
grief, the doubt, the denial at times, but we also believe in the unique
strength of the human spirits to overcome all adversities in life, and we stand
with you, as you lead us to the challenges of this world when you welcome us on
board and soar to the sky with full of courage, conviction and strength.
* Dr John
Teo reads The Malaysian Insider.
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