The flight that has landed in our hearts

MY THOUGHTS: Thousands of people are tweeting and updating their status with ideas, rumours, links and heart felt emotions with regards to the Malaysian Airlines flight that is still missing. The officials and rescue workers from all over the world are busy at work and the media trailing, every step of their way. I cannot even begin to imagine the pain and anguish of not knowing where the loved ones are; being felt by the families of the passengers. The nightmares that must follow them every night; as the strings of hope they hang on to break away one by one.

SELF CENTRED: To add to all this confusion and sorrow are the self-centred persons who should rather tie a stone around their feet and jump into the ocean. These people are playing with the feelings of the emotionally drained and information deprived families and loved ones. It is all fun and good if we knew what really happened and lives weren't at stake. I made a funny remark as well when I first heard the news. It was a surprise when the first headline appeared, “Malaysian Airlines Flight is missing”, but realising that the lives of hundreds of people on board and the families tied to them were in the balance; I simply felt empty myself. Imagine if someone made fun of a tragedy in our own nation and how we would feel. I wonder what really the people of the island of Maldives saw on Saturday morning? 

POLITICS: Then there is the various news agencies weaving theories like grandmothers knitting. Maybe stories such as this should be reserved for pure facts alone. False hope can hurt more than anything else, in this situation. Malaysian opposition politicians are ready to utilize the scenario to demonstrate the government’s incapability’s. The rest of the world uses it to mask other serious issues such as Russia and the Ukraine situation.

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS TODAY: this is the most heartless thing for one to say maybe, but it has to be said as well. There are thousands of people dying in Africa and the Middle East and for a moment we have forgotten about them. Unfortunately the missing MAS flight's news was a break from all those other serious issues, that once more will be spread across the headlines, all over the world.  If and when the airline is found, there will be relief for so many people in so different aspects. Today’s Malaysia will be tomorrow’s Ukraine or Syria once again.

MORAL OF THE STORY: there is no moral to it that I should dictate. The moral is whatever you find for yourself, reading the stories of the families in pain. Question yourself if whatever comment you make, on social media, with regards to persons lives; are they going to hurt or heal? This is once more an opportunity to look within ourselves and realise what we really have become, with easily available social media, thinning social boundaries and the ability to find support for all the wrong ideas we express, with ease, on the internet. I pray for the families and the persons on the MAS flight, and i pray for all the persons suffering through out the world. For today it might be you, tomorrow it would be me.