Something to think about

I was reading today about how some artifacts from a survivor of the Titanic were sold at auction recently.  One of the artifacts was a letter from one of the survivors, John Snyder, to his father.  In discussing his evaucation he stated:

"Only a very few people were on deck at that time and they thought it was much safer to stay on the big boat than to try the life boat."

What's been resounding with me is that last half of the sentence:  they thought it was much safer to stay on the big boat than to try the life boat.  How many times in life are we strong enough to head for the life boats?  The big boat is so comfortable.  If we jump in that little boat, we'll have to row and we don't know if/when anyone will find us!

John and his wife took the opportunity to jump and were one of 705 passengers to survive.  Out of 2238 total passengers.

Something to think about..