“HE SCREAMED OUT TO THE MOTHER WHO WAS CARRYING THE BABY INSIDE THE PLANE — BUT A WEEK LATER, HE HIMSELF KNEELED AND CRIED IN FRONT OF THEM.”


Marco , 35 years old, is a man who is quick to anger and easily irritated. Businessman
. Always in a hurry. Always stressed.
For him, the plane is a place of silence — not of a crying child.

One morning, she was on a flight to Cebu.
As she sat down, she heard the loud cry of a baby behind her.

An eight-month-old baby, eyes red from crying, is hugged by a mother who looks tired and restless.

As the passengers walked, the crying grew louder.
And Marco, who had closed his eyes to sleep, could no longer hold back.


THE SCREAM ON THE AIRPLANE

Marco stood up and looked at his mother intently.

“Miss, can you please let your child rest?
We’re all being disturbed! Can you control that or not?”

The mother was shocked.
Her hands were shaking, she was feeding her child while asking for patience.

“I’m sorry… he has a fever. I’m doing everything…”

But Marco wasn’t finished yet.

“If you can’t take care of it, why are you even traveling?
It’s already sick, and you’re taking it on a plane? You’re just causing us trouble!”

The entire plane was silent.
Some passengers turned around, some shook their heads.
But no one spoke — everyone was afraid to intervene.

The mother is crying.

“I’m not going on vacation… I’m going to the hospital in Cebu, we don’t have any money here.
There are no other doctors in our province…”

But Marco still didn’t listen to him.
He sat down, angry, and whispered:

“Your life is not anyone else’s problem.”

The mother heard that — and cried even more.


THE ALTERNATIVE TO SCREAMING

The flight passed. After landing, Marco quickly exited, not even looking back.

He thought everything was over.

But little did he know… fate would destroy the peace he thought he had.


ONE WEEK LATER

Marco was the first to enter the hospital in Manila —
holding his son Gabriel , three years old.

That morning, Gabriel suddenly stopped breathing while sleeping.
Marco immediately took him to the ER, shaking, unable to speak from fear.

While waiting in the corridor, he saw a doctor come out.
And behind him… he saw the woman sitting, hugging the crying baby —

the very mother he yelled at on the plane.

Marco was stunned.

This is not a coincidence.
This is not a joke of chance.
This is a lesson — one that hits him straight in the heart.

The woman, upon seeing him, looked up — her face not angry,
but tired and full of worry.

He approached Marco.

“Sir… is your son okay?”

Marco couldn’t speak.
He suddenly burst into tears.
Of the many people who should have come to him,
the woman he had cried for on the plane was the first to show concern.

“I don’t know what to do…” he whispered.

The woman sat next to him.

“I was the same way the day you yelled at me.
Scared, tired, and not knowing where to draw strength.”

He suddenly looked up.

He didn’t fight.
He didn’t complain.
He didn’t return the insult.

Instead, he grabbed Marco’s shoulder.

“Just pray. That’s what I did that day.
And a doctor finally helped us.”

There, Marco’s heart completely gave out.
He sobbed like a child with no one to be around.


THE RETURN OF THE SON

A few hours later, the doctor came out.

“Mr. Reyes, your son is stable.
He just had a high fever. He has recovered.”

Marco stood up, almost falling from the lightness of his chest.

When the doctor came out, he first saw the mother on the plane — smiling, holding her child.

“You’re doing better now,” the woman said.

He approached, held her hand, and apologized with all his heart:

“I’m sorry… I didn’t listen to you before.
I didn’t think that the one I was giving anger to…
would one day be the one who needed mercy.”

The woman smiled.

“We are all human, Sir.
But we can always choose to be good.”


THE LESSON OF LIFE

We don’t know what each person we meet is going through —
the crying mother, the screaming child, the hot-tempered man.

And sometimes, the person you judged on the plane…
is the first person to give you strength in the hospital.

The world is round.
Your anger will come back to haunt you.
But kindness —
especially the kindness that comes back even after you’ve been hurt —
is what saves lives.

In the end, it’s not the shouting that will make the difference,
but understanding.