Standing on a slightly submerged sandbar far from the world at large is something everyone should do at least once.
I have traveled a great deal in my life and have been amused to observe the impact a movie had on elderly Baby Boomers who know notices the inevitable and rapid passage of time. "Bucket List!" they shout, hoping to recreate the wonder and curiosity of a lost youth by getting to expensive nowheres.
I have found the prospect of growing old not all worrying as I know that I took advantage of every opportunity to step off the career ladder when it was presented to me in my youth. Offer me a promotion and I was gone, two weeks notice and a loaded motorcycle please. My wife, rather more organized than myself enjoyed a career
and lots of travel so we step toward old age and dissolution in tandem.
All of which is to say you don't need to buy an airline ticket to see Macchu Picchu or Victoria Falls or some other exotic thing to complete a valuable experience to enable you to face old age.
Learning to float with a book or an iPhone in hand could be a start. Someone asked me recently if I felt life was slipping away too fast, and seeking Zen peacefulness in a hectic world might help. she said. Not really I replied. I take pictures as the use of the camera forces me to be mindful of the moment. I don't look very Zen hauling a large boat through the shallows, do I?
Being mindful of the moment helps to slow things down and varying the deadening routine does the same. Take a break if you still can and do something different. If you are one of the millions looking for work and not finding it, because it's not there, I cannot begin to imagine how to do something as facile as "break the routine." For the rest of us they will demand more and give less, our corporate masters so while I can I take the time to look around and take pictures.
I enjoyed seeing a catamaran identical to my old cruising Gemini 105 pull up in the shallows at the beach. I hope they spent the night in peace and quiet long after the small buzzing boats with loud stereos had gone home.
Standing on a slightly submerged sandbar far from the world at large is something everyone should do at least once. 
I have traveled a great deal in my life and have been amused to observe the impact a movie had on elderly Baby Boomers who know notices the inevitable and rapid passage of time. "Bucket List!" they shout, hoping to recreate the wonder and curiosity of a lost youth by getting to expensive nowheres.
All of which is to say you don't need to buy an airline ticket to see Macchu Picchu or Victoria Falls or some other exotic thing to complete a valuable experience to enable you to face old age.
Being mindful of the moment helps to slow things down and varying the deadening routine does the same. Take a break if you still can and do something different. If you are one of the millions looking for work and not finding it, because it's not there, I cannot begin to imagine how to do something as facile as "break the routine." For the rest of us they will demand more and give less, our corporate masters so while I can I take the time to look around and take pictures.
I enjoyed seeing a catamaran identical to my old cruising Gemini 105 pull up in the shallows at the beach. I hope they spent the night in peace and quiet long after the small buzzing boats with loud stereos had gone home.
1 comment:
we can live beside the ocean
leave this world behind
we'll swim out past the breakers
and watch the world die
yeah
watch the world die
Everclear, 'Santa Monica'
Floating on Fleming,
Chuck.
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