This morning’s news highlighted the air disaster of this flight as its 25th anniversary is next week. This horrific tragedy fundamentally changed my life.
Several months before, I had begun working with women with breast cancer. The husband of one of my women was on this flight. At this time there was no grief team in place and she submitted my name to TWA. I had never officialy grief counseled, but I was limousined out to JFK and for three days, was sequestered in a room, listening to and being with families and friends of the passengers.
From here my name was put on a New York City list, and when 9/11 happened I was called. From there, snowball after snowball, all word of mouth, and to this day people in crisis call. Human beings need this right now. If you listen to one person, that person will tell another, and a beautiful thing will happen in your life.
I was recently reminded of Maya Angelou’s words: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget whatyou did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”