What If This Plane Crashed?
Existential self-talk during turbulence
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5 min readJan 20, 2019
She had terrible motion sickness, she said. She had just lost an aunt she was very close to and had to travel for the funeral. She was crying when she told us, and we couldn’t help but want to make her feel better.
Well, my wife did. She was seated in the middle. I could only try to be present with empathy as she prepared…