Maybe You Won’t Care

Guest Post by Robert Bronsdon (Hollywood Rob)

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As we all grow older, we realize that our bodies loose the strength and the resiliency that youth provides.  We like our recliners.  Our backs groan at the thought of sitting on a hard fiberglass seat in a rolling boat.

I hope that you watched the video all the way through because this next part is not going to make much sense if you didn’t.  Ask yourself this.  Have you ever had a moment in your life where you simply looked at a sky full of an infinity of stars and felt that this is perfect.  Not that you are cold.  Not that your neck is stiff.  Nothing.  Just perfect.  I have had a lot of moments in my life where I have stood in awe of the stars.  Nights in the mountains at 11,000 feet spring to mind.  But the times where I could claim “perfect” are few if not none.

There are those times where I found something that nobody else knew.  They were exciting.  Not perfect.  There are times where the sex was great.  Not perfect.  There are times of great contentment.  Is that the same as perfect?  None of us are likely to be in possession of more than a scant few of these perfect moments.  Many of us may actually find that we didn’t have any at all.  But if you are to have any, I suspect that you may come by them as a result of having made the commitment to do the hard work necessary to find yourself in the place where that perfect moment can reveal itself to you.  It is never easy to get to the place where you can see perfect.  And having gotten yourself there one is likely to find that perfect just wasn’t there that day.  I suspect that finding those moments that can’t possibly be any better are more a function of allowing yourself to consider that, for you, this is perfect.  Hard Scrabble Farmer does a much more eloquent job of explaining this than I ever will be able to do.  Most of his posts are about finding the perfect moment in a long day of hard work.  It’s not the work that makes the perfect moment.  But without the work, you are likely to look right past the perfect moment.  They happen every day all over the world but I suspect that they are more likely to happen around a lake in New Hampshire or in the middle of the Atlantic, or on a high mountain pass in California.  Perhaps it is because in these places, you are encouraged to see the beauty by the lack of distractions.

But that is not why I want to take up some of your time here.  I want to point out that this boat with these people on it has been doing this for over eight years.  The crew has changed over the years but the business plan has always been the same.  While I (and I suspect you as well) have followed the proscribed “get a degree – get a job – get a pension – get retired” business plan, they have launched off into the unknown trusting to their skill and luck to get them to places that I can only dream about.  They have accepted that the world is a changing place and that old paradigms are unlikely to provide the same risk/benefit rewards that they did in the past.  Their conclusion is that they can do it a different way.  A better way?  Only time will tell.  They certainly won’t get a pension out of all of their effort, but then neither will your children.

My point is this.  You had to make your way in a changing world.  Maybe you were successful.  Maybe you failed.  Don’t denigrate those who chose a different path for the world that they are forced to accept as a given is not the world that you found.  That’s not your fault and it’s not their fault.  It has always been like this and it will always be like this.  Maybe the only way to measure their success is by the number of perfect moments.

Oh, and I learned that you can get your internet over Single Side Band for free.  There is that.