Resourcefulness / Present Perfect
Raise the Sails and Go
Doing the right thing at the wrong time equals pain. Someday - the busiest day of the week - is the wrong time. It is never about finite resources: not enough time, money, or opportunity. It is about resourcefulness.
If travel is your dream, then live your dream now, not your backup plan. I would recommend that everyone who wants to travel do it immediately. Sooner rather than later. Gather no moss. Time marches on. Start now. The winds of grace always blow for us, but we have to raise our sails and go.
Proust decided he had done enough living by age 30 and spent the rest of his life processing the life he had lived in Remembrance of Things Past. I do not suffer from the "dis-ease" of more, but I still see myself traveling by cruise ship in the present perfect tense: I will have booked another world cruise by age 60.
The reason I have not written a book is because I am still processing it all. I look forward to the day when I have more past than future, and my experience catches up to my imagination.
Everyone's life is either a warning or an example, but nothing is so irritating as a good example. I write my own rules for nautical success: continued enthusiasm despite failure after failure.
Despite the camaraderie, laughs, and tribalism that attend any cruise contract or project, the profession remains a lonely one. Friendships are intense but brief. When the gig ends or the curtain comes down, you can find yourself home, staring at your phone, wondering if any of it really happened.
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in! - C.S. Lewis
