Stepping into the unknown, by Rohan Gunatillake
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Standing at the door of the airplane, a new thing called “snow” swirling around her, Rohan’s mom is about to take a momentous step – making a life change that reverberates down the generations. A meditation about the steps we take when the outcome is uncertain.
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| 0:00.0 | Heathrow Airport, London, February 1970. |
| 0:06.0 | A plane lands after a very long flight from Columbus, Sri Lanka. |
| 0:10.0 | It's a Vickers VC-10 emblazoned with a logo that no longer exists. |
| 0:16.0 | And the plane takes 151 passengers. |
| 0:20.0 | The ground crew roll in the stairs, and eventually after long wait the door opens, |
| 0:26.0 | and people start filing out. |
| 0:29.0 | A young woman, not yet in her 30s, takes her time to make sure her things are together. |
| 0:36.0 | She convinces herself that it's to make sure she's not forgotten in her hand luggage. |
| 0:41.0 | The truth is that she's not got any hand luggage, and she's scared of leaving the cabin. |
| 0:49.0 | Finally she walks through the door, propelled by the smiles of the three air stewardesses. |
| 0:55.0 | The first thing that hits her face is the cold. |
| 0:59.0 | Then it's a snowflake. |
| 1:03.0 | Then it's the tears. |
| 1:08.0 | What have I done? |
| 1:11.0 | She's heard of snow before, but has never seen it. |
| 1:15.0 | What am I doing? |
| 1:19.0 | Hey, it's Rohan, your host of meditative story. |
| 1:23.0 | And I'm pleased to invite you into another one of my solo episodes. |
| 1:27.0 | And this week I'm not sharing a story of my life. |
| 1:30.0 | Actually, it's very much a story of my life, but it's probably fair to say that it's really my mother's. |
| 1:37.0 | I think about those tears of my mother's a lot, probably a couple of times a week if I'm honest. |
| 1:43.0 | The salt mixing with the snow on her face, the coldness of the air, |
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