As the wife of a 400 pilot I am often faced with the assumption that I live a glamorous lifestyle, with exotic holidays and a bottomless purse full of money. I was shocked whilst shopping for a new mattress when a salesman questioned, “Why would you want to look at a less expensive mattress? Isn’t your husband a pilot?”
I really enjoy being part of the aviation world. There are a lot of great pros to the lifestyle we live, but it is certainly not glamorous and my purse is only weighed down by shrapnel. As you well know, there are many challenges in living the airline life whether you’re married, single, old, young, male or female. Through these challenges there are opportunities to share with people some of the difficulties we face (for e.g. me explaining to the salesman how much hard work Glen put in to get where he is, and the hard work he continues to put in for a not so glamorous life), and they can see the passion and dedication that pilots and airline staff have towards their work, their company and the safety of passengers.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks [1]
When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise. The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value. The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of judgement.[2]
The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.[3]
A wise man's heart guides his mouth, and his lips promote instruction. Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.[4]
"If you were to take the sum total of all authoritative articles ever written by the most qualified psychologists and psychiatrists on the subject of mental hygiene, if you were to combine them and refine them and cleave out the excess verbiage, if you were to take the whole of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you were to have these unadulterated bits of pure scientific knowledge concisely expressed by the most capable of living poets, you would have an awkward and an incomplete summary of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. For nearly two thousand years the Christian world has been holding in its hands the complete answer to its restless and fruitless yearnings. Here...rests the blueprint for successful human life with optimism, mental health, and contentment".
I recently returned from a trip in a state of mind that could only be described as 'unhealthy'. I was angry, frustrated, disheartened, disgusted and quite simply embarrassed. To make things worse, those feelings were toward some of my colleagues. I had been on a ten day trip to Europe, four sectors, two different crews. As each sector unfolded I was continually confronted with some very disturbing attitudes and behaviours by some of my fellow colleagues, particularly the more senior ones. Displays of arrogance, self-importance and a complete disregard and lack of respect or understanding for other people and their tasks prevailed throughout the trip. It made me angry, furious, that somebody could think and believe that they were more important than another person simply because of their position. I know we all see it from time to time, and we usually just brush it off, but this time it really got to me. I really struggled to bite my tongue. All I wanted to do was have a go at them, to express my frustration and disbelief at their arrogance and question why they believed they had any right to treat other people the way they did.
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As the wife of a 400 pilot I am often faced with the assumption that I live a glamorous lifestyle, with exotic holidays and a bottomless purse full of money. I was shocked whilst shopping for a new mattress when a salesman questioned, “Why would you want to look at a less expensive mattress? Isn’t your husband a pilot?”
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks 
The American psychiatrist, J. T. Fisher wrote...
I recently returned from a trip in a state of mind that could only be described as 'unhealthy'. I was angry, frustrated, disheartened, disgusted and quite simply embarrassed. To make things worse, those feelings were toward some of my colleagues. I had been on a ten day trip to Europe, four sectors, two different crews. As each sector unfolded I was continually confronted with some very disturbing attitudes and behaviours by some of my fellow colleagues, particularly the more senior ones. Displays of arrogance, self-importance and a complete disregard and lack of respect or understanding for other people and their tasks prevailed throughout the trip. It made me angry, furious, that somebody could think and believe that they were more important than another person simply because of their position. I know we all see it from time to time, and we usually just brush it off, but this time it really got to me. I really struggled to bite my tongue. All I wanted to do was have a go at them, to express my frustration and disbelief at their arrogance and question why they believed they had any right to treat other people the way they did. 
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