Eleven years ago, I was scheduled on a UA flight back from Hong Kong to Toronto (via Chicago) for my annual vacation on September 11. That was the day when the WTC and the Pentagon were attacked and the former fell. As of this day, I still feel I was very lucky and blessed to have escaped this disaster.
If I hadn’t had earlier availability in the work schedule….if I hadn’t kept chasing UA for a change to an earlier flight….if I hadn’t been put on the flight of September 8, 2001…. ….I would then be ….at best stuck in the air or in some boonie land, and at worst, vanished from this world.
Eleven years had gone by, I still felt grateful….not only for that trip, but for every safe trip I made.
Fate is on your side. Fate is many things, including what you did to rule out the ifs. Your feelings will alert you to look everyway as you move on and not leave things on the hands of others. Good luck