As the saying goes, life's unpredictable. The bf just showed me an article about the s'porean pilot trainee who crashed in Malaysia. It was scary to hear but as an aerospace engineer, we know exactly how many ways a flight can go wrong so it wasn't that shocking. Then he asked if I would let him fly again (he has a private pilot licence in that same m'sia flying school, licensed to fly that exact kind of plane that crashed today). So I thought for a while.. Well, you can get into a car accident easier than a plane crash statistically and it doesn't mean people stop driving since that scary Ferrari accident or what. So I didnt give it further thought. Until...
Until I realise the victim was a friend of my friend. Weird as it may seem, it just put things in very different perspectives. I think that's the psychology of crisis stress at play, one of the electives i took in NTU previously and honestly, it's the most useful module I've taken. Basically people have illusion of invulnerability before crisis happens, in other words, the "it won't happen to me" mindset. But when crisis happens or happens to someone you know, we will now have the illusion of centrality, I.e. now you think that same event has a high chance o happening to YOU. So when I heard it was a friend's friend, I start imagining how probable it can happen to (touchwood) my loved one and it's just suddenly so scary.
And while sending my condolences, I recalled that incident some 5 years ago when I suddenly just lost a friend. It's not something people our age are prepared for. I have gotten through it long ago, as I believe most of my classmates have, but from time to time whenever I am reminded of it, it's just... Sad.
It also Highlights again the importance of insurance, which I have been very diligently reading up about so that I can get it once I get a job.
Life's unpredictable. Life's fragile, therefore precious. Let's treasure it :)
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