A few days ago while traveling as a passenger on my commuter flight to Chicago O'Hare, I was presented with such a second chance for a missed opportunity. As we were flying over Lake Michigan on our approach to land on a misty-foggy winter morning, I caught sight of Chicago's skyline peeking through the mist as if it were a ghost city floating over a cloud. What a mystical sight it was indeed! "Too bad I don't have my camera out to take a picture of this ephemeral illusion," I thought.
We continued on our final descent past the northwest side of the downtown area, with the plane's landing gear already lowered in place, when suddenly we start climbing and retracting the wheels again in a fly-over aborted landing. "Too close for comfort with the landing airplane ahead of us," the Captain announced. Lo and behold, we ended up flying right over the city's tall buildings as we circled around to re-position ourselves in line over the lake... again!
This time I pulled out my cellphone's camera function and started clicking away. "I'm NOT missing out on this chance again!" See the photos attached below taken through my airplane window.
This whole episode served as a metaphor of a similar "second-chance" opportunity I'm currently facing in my life. I can only describe it at this moment as this....
I imagine the analogy of receiving a beautiful new "boomerang" as a birthday present. You admire & cherish it... but it's only after you've thrown it far away and see the marvel of it returning right back to you, that you truly recognize its true beauty & power, its true potential & purpose!
