Are You Afraid To Fly?

jrothkoo
Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:17:24 +0000

I wondered if other parents do the flight tracking thing! I also felt that it was “slightly creepy” (when I did it to track my daughter’s flight to Grinnell and back, last week) (but, there WERE those tornadoes occurring out there!), but understood that: I was doing it as a kind of “pacifier”; that it was privately done, so I wouldn’t be passing on any flight fear to my kids; that the fear was a manifestation, to some degree, of my daughter’s passage into the larger world, where I couldn’t protect her anymore. When I realized the deeper source of my fear, the fear left quite a bit, and I felt the joy for her…although I continued to track her flight until I had to leave for the airport.