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Jessica
Samuel Langley was an inventor and aviator at the same time that Wilbur and Orville Wright were creating their own plans and designs for their first biplane. It was an exciting time in aviation and for the world. Everyone was watching intently to the skies as the impossible was being made possible. Unfortunately, during one of Langley’s first test flights of his Aerodrome, it crashed. It was tested a second time, only to crash again. During a conference that Wilbur Wright was attending, an audience member questioned him about the dihedral angle of the wings that Samuel Langley had used. It didn’t take long for Wilbur to formulate a response and point out that Langley’s machine had only been tested up to that point, in the dead of calms. His plane never encountered the impact of wind. At this point he made a very poignant statement that can be applied to life, “the wind usually blows.” The surest test in life to know if we are ready to fly is not in the calm, but in the storm. I have realized that I am like one of the Wright Brothers’ planes. I have been tested in the wind. I have faced loved ones dying, health issues and a variety of other trials that have strengthened me and tweaked me for the next obstacles to come. Each experience was a trial run to see where I needed reinforcement, reconstructing and modification. With each “storm” I faced, I became stronger for the next. As I viewed my life, I realized I must not contend against the wind, but work with it. Adversity, pain and sorrow shouldn’t be feared and it’s under these windy conditions that we are often built properly and given the lift to fly.
Samuel Langley was an inventor and aviator at the same time that Wilbur and Orville Wright were creating their own plans and designs for their first biplane. It was an exciting time in aviation and for the world. Everyone was watching intently to the skies as the impossible was being made possible. Unfortunately, during one of Langley’s first test flights of his Aerodrome, it crashed. It was tested a second time, only to crash again. During a conference that Wilbur Wright was attending, an audience member questioned him about the dihedral angle of the wings that Samuel Langley had used. It didn’t take long for Wilbur to formulate a response and point out that Langley’s machine had only been tested up to that point, in the dead of calms. His plane never encountered the impact of wind. At this point he made a very poignant statement that can be applied to life, “the wind usually blows.” The surest test in life to know if we are ready to fly is not in the calm, but in the storm. I have realized that I am like one of the Wright Brothers’ planes. I have been tested in the wind. I have faced loved ones dying, health issues and a variety of other trials that have strengthened me and tweaked me for the next obstacles to come. Each experience was a trial run to see where I needed reinforcement, reconstructing and modification. With each “storm” I faced, I became stronger for the next. As I viewed my life, I realized I must not contend against the wind, but work with it. Adversity, pain and sorrow shouldn’t be feared and it’s under these windy conditions that we are often built properly and given the lift to fly.
"Until you spread your wings, you have no idea how far you'll fly."