As I go through life in living day-to-day, it’s starting to become real that people come and go in all areas of your life. Some you’re really happy to see enter your life. You’re happy to be around them. You enjoy their company, the friendship, the relationship, the caring and compassion that they share with you and vice versa. Then sometimes, people leave and you miss that.
They leave for whatever reason. Either your paths grow apart, or your interests no longer align. Sometimes, people leave simply because they don’t like you or something that you’ve done, or maybe how you run your company or live your life. As I was thinking about this over the week, it seems like, with every flip of the calendar, the amount of people who enter and exit my life always seems amplified. While up early this morning, reflecting on the day and the week I’ve had, I started thinking that sometimes your life may just feel like a Southwest Airlines plane.
Southwest has a great motto that says they put passengers on and off a plane faster than any airline in the industry. They fly from city to city picking up and dropping off people. They do it 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. As I reflect on recent people both entering and now exiting my life, I couldn’t help but laugh to myself this morning that I’m almost like a Southwest Airlines plane. Moving around at a very fast rate of speed, taking people on, letting people off, but smiling and loving life throughout the process.