YOU DO NOT KNOW WHETHER AN ACCIDENT HARMS YOU OR SAVES YOU.

YOU DO NOT KNOW WHETHER AN ACCIDENT HARMS YOU OR SAVES YOU.

A pilot had to had an emergency landing. He was flying over sea. He located a barren island and somehow landed the plane on the beach. The plane on crash landing broke various instruments as well as its body. It was thus unable to fly once again. The pilot had no hope to escape other than if someone sights him and evacuates him from the island.
In order to survive the pilot learnt how to make a shelter and a hut, how to start fire. His only priority was how to cook food out of whatever that was going to be found on the island.
Living everyday life was an ordeal for him. His entire day used to be spent on trying to cite a ship, a boat or a vessel that could take him away from the island. He used come out of his makeshift hut and wave clothes at distant ship hoping that somebody will notice it and then take him away from that island.
Time passed, it went on to be more than one year in one dress that was torn to shreds, and had a state of mind that was going to break any time.
One day he noticed a ship passing closed by while he was cooking food with makeshift fire in his hut. He rushed out immediately to wave a cloth to the passing ship. While he waved, the ship kept on passing to be away from his eyes.
As he returned he found the hut was burnt as in the rush to get out, the food that was being "cooked" fell. This set the entire hut made of straw on fire.
He was aghast. He felt that the survival would become even more difficult without a shelter, a shelter that took months to build. He was despondent as he watched smoke from his already burnt hut.
Soon afterwards, he saw a helicopter hovering over the island. He started waving frantically. As he waved now, he was promptly rescued.
He was surprised and asked as to how they came in helicopter and why did they came?
The answer of the rescuers was
"It was the smoke that gave us the indication that someone is in the island and they are sending smoke as a stress signal.
Just think, what was considered to be a catastrophe for the person now became the saviour.