Airplane Crash Story

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One may believe that he has complete control over his thinking and behavior. Does he? During a meeting for addiction recovery that I attended, I kept hearing people say they find it difficult to stop thinking about their addictions. I heard one story of a patient who found a vodka bottle in his basement and started to drink again one year after he had quit. Although this kind of mindset is not easy to understand, there is no doubt a dark side to people's minds.

A story of an airplane crash follows. Jiro and Taro, who were friends, took the same flight one day. Unfortunately, their plane had a problem and needed to make an emergency landing, but the landing was not successful. Although most of the passengers died, Jiro and Taro survived. They found themselves on a snowy mountain with no way of communicating with anyone. Jiro was seriously wounded, and Taro tried to save him, but Jiro died during the day. After burying Jiro in the snow, an exhausted Taro returned to the cave they had discovered earlier and went to sleep.
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Jiro, whom Taro had buried the day before, was lying next to Taro. At first, he thought Jiro was not dead and had returned from the place where he was buried; however, he found that Jiro was indeed dead. Taro carried Jiro's body to the same place and buried him again. During the day, Taro tried to repair the airplane's radio communication equipment so he could call for help. Ground staff discovered the flight was missing and began searching for it. As night fell once again, Taro went to sleep in the same

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