As many have said, including Superman, flying is one of the safest ways to travel. Even so, there are still plane crashes. With such a large item and so many bodies within, it is reassuring to know that it isn't easy for a plane to crash. It actually takes seven things (mistakes, errors, whatever) for a plane to crash. This includes human errors and plane malfunctions, it takes seven of these to take down a plane.

So this got me thinking. If it takes seven things for a plane to drop in altitude, so how many things does it take for us to drop in attitude? To go from a good or great day to a bad or terrible day?

Well, I'm not a scientist, so I don't know the exact answer, but I will tell you this: sometimes, you will wake up on the wrong side of the bed, but that doesn't mean you should be grumpy. Sometimes you will get a bad grade on a test you studied so hard for, but you shouldn’t be rude. Sometimes you will get dressed up and do you hair, and then it's raining outside, but that doesn't mean you should be a jerk. Sometimes multiple bad things will happen to you, and that will just amplify the problems. I think that is how you get a bad day. When only one thing happens, it's a lot easier to shrug it off. But when things keep happening, it gets harder and harder to not dwell on the problems when they keep piling up.

With a plane, there is the captain, then there is the first officer. Fun fact, there are more plane crashes with the captain flying than the first officer because when the captain messes up, the first is less likely to speak up, but when the first officer makes a mistake, the captain has no fear of saying something.

So why is this relevant to being positive? Whenever you are having a lot of bad things happening, you should speak up. (Maybe don't yell at the rain, then you'd just look silly.) Give yourself a pep talk, 'hey that's okay, yeah you woke up earlier to look nice, and now it's raining, but at least you got to watch the sunrise,' speak up, encourage yourself. Because if you let that one bad thing simmer in your mind, then when another bad thing happens, it's only going to make things worse, my friend.

Moral of the story is, when you are flying your plane, don’t let the problems add up to the point that you will crash. Speak up after each problem and fix it (or find a bright side to it) so that they don’t just pile up until it is inevitable that you will crash. Now, I am no professional of this, but I have found that when one problem happens at the beginning of the day, if I put that fire out, I have a much better attitude when the next problem arises.