Eyjafjallajokull Volcano Causes People to Change Their Plans!
Modern people usually have very strict schedules.
We love to plan ahead and make sure we get work, family and pleasure together.
Our daily lives are full of important deadlines, meetings at certain hours and so on.
Many of us spend huge amounts of time planning, which often includes knowing about a conference, meeting or trip several months in advance.
We take for granted that communications work.
If the internet is down for half a day, we panic.
If we cannot get hold of that important person on his mobile immediately, we get frustrated.
Not to mention if your flight is delayed.
Or worse, if your flight is cancelled.
In my experience from international travelling, few other things bring out the worst in people more than having their flight cancelled! Why? Having your plans and schedule spoilt means you are not in control of your situation.
And most of us hate that.
We think it is a sign of weakness if someone or something outside of us, changes our plans.
Technology has created a generation of people who think they are superhuman.
With our iPods, mobiles, computers, Bluetooths, GPS and lots more, we believe that we are smarter than Nature.
And a little bit ahead of God.
However, the truth is that technology is vulnerable and so are we.
Right now there is a volcano, Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland, which has erupted.
It has been dormant for 200 years, but has for the last few weeks been spitting our ashes and gases.
Now airports not only in Iceland, but in Sweden, Norway, the UK, Denmark and Finland have closed their airports due to the ashes from Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
More European countries will most likely have to close their airports very soon.
As I live in Sweden, I am about to be affected by a volcano more than 1300 miles away from me! It does not disturb me at all.
Who am I to complain about the forces of Nature? So now tens of thousands of people who had made plans and had important flights to catch, are forced to change their plans.
In a longer perspective, that trip, meeting, conference or flight will have become unimportant.
Perhaps it is a good eye-opener for modern people.
We are not in control of everything.
We are not smarter than Nature.
And definitely not ahead of God.
Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland teaches us a valuable lesson.
We love to plan ahead and make sure we get work, family and pleasure together.
Our daily lives are full of important deadlines, meetings at certain hours and so on.
Many of us spend huge amounts of time planning, which often includes knowing about a conference, meeting or trip several months in advance.
We take for granted that communications work.
If the internet is down for half a day, we panic.
If we cannot get hold of that important person on his mobile immediately, we get frustrated.
Not to mention if your flight is delayed.
Or worse, if your flight is cancelled.
In my experience from international travelling, few other things bring out the worst in people more than having their flight cancelled! Why? Having your plans and schedule spoilt means you are not in control of your situation.
And most of us hate that.
We think it is a sign of weakness if someone or something outside of us, changes our plans.
Technology has created a generation of people who think they are superhuman.
With our iPods, mobiles, computers, Bluetooths, GPS and lots more, we believe that we are smarter than Nature.
And a little bit ahead of God.
However, the truth is that technology is vulnerable and so are we.
Right now there is a volcano, Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland, which has erupted.
It has been dormant for 200 years, but has for the last few weeks been spitting our ashes and gases.
Now airports not only in Iceland, but in Sweden, Norway, the UK, Denmark and Finland have closed their airports due to the ashes from Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
More European countries will most likely have to close their airports very soon.
As I live in Sweden, I am about to be affected by a volcano more than 1300 miles away from me! It does not disturb me at all.
Who am I to complain about the forces of Nature? So now tens of thousands of people who had made plans and had important flights to catch, are forced to change their plans.
In a longer perspective, that trip, meeting, conference or flight will have become unimportant.
Perhaps it is a good eye-opener for modern people.
We are not in control of everything.
We are not smarter than Nature.
And definitely not ahead of God.
Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland teaches us a valuable lesson.
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