The air plane was flying high in the sky at a approximately 30,000ft. Everyone on the lonely aircraft, which had taken off in treacherous weather conditions warnings, were sitting calmly in their seats enjoy the smooth gliding of the aircraft through the clear eastern sky. The pilot had just turned off the seat belt sign, some passengers began to stand and move about the cabin, when suddenly the plane shook hard being hit abruptly by the storm that was the warning prior to take off. Passengers were thrown to and fro as the team of pilots tried there best to steady the plan without losing control.....One passenger sitting near the exit door frightened for his life and crying as if someone had stolen his favorite piece of candy, when he suddenly noticed a red button upon the door beside him. Below the button a tag read "PRESS THIS BUTTON TO SAVE YOUR LIFE" as he sat pondering the tag and and questioning the inner conscious on whether he should push the button, when a flight attendant came by noticing his fascination in the button and the tag, quickly scolded him for even having the hint of possibly following through with the instructions of the tag.....The passenger quite confused both by the button and the quick scolding of the flight attendant and very scared by the near eminent destruction of the soon coming crash of the plane. Quickly with out thinking pushed down the read button and escaped the iceberg that came out of nowhere. Then with a flash and an empty feeling in the stomach awoke in a hot sweat in his bed and realize he had been dreaming.........
I know what your're thinking (well I have made that mistake before assuming ones thoughts....never works out in my favor.) Well let me rephrase my statement I THINK I know what you're thinking. You possibly might be saying what a cheesy story and what did I eat that would make my mind come up with such a crazy unrealistic story about a button that saves lives and who cares?
Well you might be saying who really cares...and you may be right who cares?
We watch movies, read books, listen to audio, and have toyed about with the antic of the red button. We see it in space ships and cars the red button normally represents danger, self destruction, or a life saving aid in some James Bond movie that quickly diverts the death of the near perfect "double O agent". In some cases it is the emergency button that warns others of a fire, tornado, hurricane or an attack of mutant ninja squirrels( In my mind that is probably most likely not the way the world will end, but do me a favor don't tell the squirrels.) It is most always in cased under layers of glass with special codes to be entered in order to press the glorious and mysterious button in a downward motion that might save or destroy. The button represents those things that we don't do. Those areas that we don't approach or only talk about behind closed doors. The attitudes that we don't let be know or ideas that we keep in the recesses of our minds due to what people might say about them. The red button is weird, it is out of the norm, society has been trained not to push the button, and not to do anything to rambunctious that would make one an outcast to the mediocre mentality. But what if? What if we pushed the lines of norm, scurried out of the single filed lines leading to average and pushed the button that might cause doom, but might also push you and I into things that we have never imagined. So let us rethink the button and let us rethink our mentality. Let us not criticize what others may have the intestinal fortitude to do, to discover, to be, and to say. Like my mother always used to say in trying to trick me into eating vegetables as a young child "Don't knock it until you try it."
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