Knowledge isn’t the answer

How many times have you been told “Flying is safer than driving to the airport”? If knowledge was the answer then there would be no one on the planet who smoked. Everyone knows smoking is dangerous, yet they do it anyway. Knowledge only documents, seeing something will actually motivate and move you forward to take action.

So, what is there to see?

It took me years to see that when my brother and I sat next to each other on an airplane, he was not afraid and I was. I could never see the answer to the question why? On an airplane we ate the same food and were breathing the same air. He’s seen the same TV footage of planes and their misfortune as I have, so why is he not afraid and I am? What I finally saw was that the fear had everything to do with me and nothing to do with the plane. I was not only having a different conversation in my mind than my brother was, but I actually created my conversation from something in my past. I finally owned that my fear had nothing to do with where I was and everything to do with who I was being on that plane.