Brian Robeson is on a small plane from New York to visit his dad in the middle of Canada. There is only one pilot and in the middle of the flight, he has a heart attack. Brian is stuck alone thousands of feet in the air. Survival mode turns on in him and he takes control of the plane. He knew how keep it going steady and straight from movies but had no clue how to land or anything of that sort. Eventually the plane runs out of gas and starts to summit into the deep Canadian woods. Brian attempts to land it in a small lake. He barely gets out alive and almost drowns. All he has is a Hatchet his mom gave him and the clothes on his back. He takes shelter in a nearby cave next to the lake.
"Brian looks back on when he sat in the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that—it didn't work." This is an important quote because Brian realizes it is bad to feel sorry for yourself.
I can connect to this passage because I am very interested in survival. My friends and I used to go out in the woods with only a couple key tools and build shelters and sleep in them for a night. It was a lot of fun and challenging.
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