Kids and Calamity

We were watching a documentary of the missing Malaysian flight MH370 recently. It was quite interesting although a bit too dramatised for me. When we wanted to watch it, my wife and I said to our children that this happened years ago, back when the oldest of them was still in the womb. I also said that I didn’t go on flights for a while after that, not based on my decision but mainly because work didn’t need me to. I mentioned that I did go on a few flights after that because of work. To which my youngest said, it was a good thing I was not on MH370.

Later during the documentary she kept repeating that.

In the show, one of the victims was a steward on the airplane and left behind a wife and a daughter. She is (or was?) a stewardess too and recounted her anguish and grief over the years. She also said her daughter asked, why did her father needed to work on airplanes? Why couldn’t he work in another job? Because then he wouldn’t be missing and she would still have her dad.

That was quite a sad statement. When I compared this to my daughter’s statement, I can see the similarities that kids just love their parents and although they might have a hard time seeing the reasons or events that led to a certain point, they understand the impact and they don’t want the worse to happen to their parents.

Makes me wonder what go on in the minds of children in Gaza. May Allah bless them.

Thank you for reading.