I’m not a person who takes pills when I have a challenge going to sleep
instead I let my imagination take over as I pretend to become a different person.
It’s like a “What if” game.
Last night the word TITANIC popped into my head. I immediately though
of the sinking of the luxurious cruise ship the Titanic. ‘I think I’ll play a mental
game that I was a passenger on the ship’, I decided.
I lost track of time and became oblivious of my immediate surroundings as
I mentally projected onto the ship. I wrote the following scenario that I’ll share
with you. I even titled it Love in Action.

As Nathan gathered his tools in stateroom 108 on the upper deck of the TITANIC
his heart began beating a little faster at the thought of surprising his beloved
wife, Maggie. He knew the steamer would be making her maiden voyage to
America on April tenth & he requested this stateroom when he booked passage.

Nathan waited until his last day at work on the ship before he returned to this
stateroom to attach the box under the dressing table. The box contained a locket
engraved with the message: May Our Love Be An Everlasting Voyage Together.

April fifteenth would mark their forty-fifth wedding anniversary. He wanted it to
be special for he would be retiring from his job with the Pilgrim Ship Company,
where he worked all his adult life. He had so many plans upon their return from
the voyage. He would expand his garden area, enlarge the guesthouse where
Maggie taught music and wrote children’s stories.

‘Bet it will take her longer to find her gift this time because this is an unfamiliar
place for her,’ he thought as he closed the door behind cabin 108. Two
days later he and Maggie would be First Class passengers on the ship.

Maggie was elated when Nathan told her about their voyage to America a
week earlier. She had spent the entire time before the cruise getting ready and
packing. She was especially thrilled when she learned about the huge ballroom
on the ship. Along with her love of music and writing Nathan and Maggie
enjoyed dancing.

The day finally arrived for their departure. The sky was overcast with a steady
rain. This did not dampen their enthusiasm. When Maggie stepped into their
stateroom she squealed with delight and hugged Nathan for the umpteenth time.
Since hearing about being on the maiden voyage of the largest ship in the world,
she acted like a teenager on her first date. They danced until dawn the first
three nights.

It was on their fourth day out, April fourteenth when Nathan noticed an aura of
quietness about Maggie. The ship had been pitching and tossing since morning
and a cold chill hung over the liner. They decided to stay in their stateroom and
order tea and toast. As they drank the tea, Maggie turned to Nathan and again
asked his opinion about the meaning of Life, God and one’s Destiny. Over the
years this topic came up frequently. The more they read about other people’s
concepts the more philosophical their views became.

Tomorrow would be their anniversary, when Nathan wold give Maggie the
gift that he had hidden in their stateroom to commemorate the special day-
their forty-fifth wedding anniversary. Instead of waiting until tomorrow Nathan
decided that he would play their favorite mental game now. Maggie was so good
at reading Nathan’s mind he found it uncanny. Maybe he could outwit her this
time. A place she was unfamiliar with…would she be able to read his mind and
find her gift in the hiding place? ‘Perhaps this would cheer her up,’ he thought.

“I hid something in this room for you, if you read my mind it’s yours,” he said
as his face spread into a smile. His gentle laugh rippled though the air as she
looked at him for a moment before she walked over to the dressing table.
“Are you referring to the box taped under the table?” Nathan shook his head in
disbelief as he removed it and handed it to her. Reading the inscription her eyes
sparkled with love for him and he swung her into the circle of his arms.

“Why do I think…” before he could complete the sentence an electrifying
shudder reverberated through the ship. They clung to each other for a brief
moment. The next sound was a shrill whistle. “All hands on deck…All hands
on deck. Secure your life jackets.” The loudspeaker repeated. Grabbing their
warmest wraps they left the stateroom.

Panic and utter kayos escalated as they made their way toward the ship’s
rail. Crewmembers were guiding passengers into the life rafts. The cabin boy
assigned to service their stateroom come forward to lead them to their assigned
raft. After Maggie assessed the situation her eyes locked on a young couple
clinging to each other. They were not wearing life jackets. She turned to Nathan
and said, “Let the others go first.” They unbuckled their life jackets and handed
them to the couple.

“You will be fine.” Maggie assured them as she pressed the locket that Nathan
had given her earlier into the young woman’s palm. She then directed the cabin
boy to give their place to the couple.

As the life raft rowed away from the sinking Titanic the young woman clutched
the locket so tightly she could feel the embossed inscription on the back of
the locket. It was too dark to read the message but she knew that she would
treasure it from that day forward. An older woman that was seated beside the
couple in the raft was watching what had just transpired. She turned to the
young women and said, “Honey you just witnessed: Love in Action.”

Now I have a question for you. What do you think happened? Did I latch onto
actual passengers that were on the Titanic? Is that is how movie scripts are
written? How about futuristic and SiFi stories… are they telepathically dictated
by beings not in this dimension? Because I tend to be open-minded and believe
that everything is possible I’ll take the…So what else is new? Amendment.
I suggest that you give it a try and let your mind take you to another place,
another time, and another personality. You may be surprised, entertained and
learn something about our mind.

Helene Hadsell 2010