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Legend In My Own Mind
It’s easy come easy go with sailing memories, as the older I get the better my past gets. Everyone lives with self mythology. I am no miraculous exception. A figment of my imagination, I a legend in my own mind. It's not brain surgery, it's rocket science, fooled by randomness, I have left everything up to chance, yet my "career" at sea reads like a novel, page by page.
I am the hero of my own life. This self mythology are the stories I tell about myself. The more I tell these stories the less likely they are true.
Going on land to get a more accurate view of the world and myself can be shocking---Life on board a ship is like a carton of milk, with an expiration date stamped right on the carton.
Understanding the mythology of myself at sea is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.
The more important a memory is to the story I tell myself about myself, the more often I rehearse the memory. And the more often I relive those memories , the less likely it is that they are true.
Tranquility Base, The Ego Has Landed
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Cruise ship service is about downplaying
the negatives and creating the illusion of perfection. The FOH (front of the
house) is all things to all people. Now that I am finally traveling as a guest. I DO like
to be served, but invisibly.
Working on floating hotels. you
are the United Nations Ambassador,and the whole passenger manifest become non-persons and are granted an ethical
equivalent of diplomatic immunity. Anything goes. No judgments. Still, I know I
need a vacation from my vacation, when the little things, like elevator
behavior, or grab and go at the buffet line start to irk me. It's actually, the tip of the iceberg.
Spending an overnight
on land in Central Florida is the best way for me to compare these two mundane worlds. Its a kind of deliverance, a release from the stronghold of the sea, and its own kind of underbelly, wildness and danger, isolated from the gloss and safety of the USA. Gravity hurts. Bad Decisions Make Good Stories.It wasn't a bad decision to sail around the world 7 times. It's a bad decision to do it for the eighth time.
You can't get any further away before you start coming back. I wrote about that when I did back to back 2011-2012 South Pacific Voyages ... "So in a sense, you can have too much of a good thing. The more you experience of the good thing, your overall happiness will decline."
The Law of Diminishing Returns
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You know, addiction isn't the problem - it's the solution-
When all you care about is here, this is a good place to be |
It is the theory that the more your experience something, the less effective it becomes. Think of the drug addict that needs more and more drugs, just to achieve the same high.
Beyond that point, more and more gains in any one particular area adds less and less to happiness.
So in a sense, you can have too much of a good thing. The more you experience of the good thing, your overall happiness will decline.
I am needing a larger and larger DOSES of paradise-Bora Bora, Moorea, now Fiji---to get the same feeling I had when I simply visited Europe or even Canada. It's STILL working!
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Fiji has over 300 islands- I have seen about 25 so far this trip. I'm concerned that "the wow factor" no longer applies. Yet if I take an imaginary a ride down Southern California's Carmageddon- Interstate 405, breath in some smog while stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I still want to escape
to MY reality--being in the South Pacific! I love the Free Parking for all boats, ships and anything that floats.
