Ximera - Day twentysecond - Landed
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Will we still be able to walk?
Will we remember how to walk?
Will we be shy in the middle of a lot of strangers?
Will Ximera crew be able to put more than two metres between each other without shout out loud for a MOB (Man Over Board)?
Will the boat ever be clean again?
Questions without answer, we need to put our feet on land and taste back the normal mammals life in the 21th century.
Now it's AM and we're moored in Rodney Bay, St. Lucia. The Caribbean!
Thanks to all Ximera crew for this fantastic atlantic crossing, thanks to the sea for being blue, thanks to the stars to be in the sky, thanks to the plankton to be our seasky.
Actually, the emotions on reaching land are diverse and extremes ... wanting land but wanting to continue ... wanting new supplies but happy with what we have ... confusing and obvious ... it is difficult to find words to describe the confusion in the mind.
These people, who I had not met 5 or 6 weeks ago are now my very close friends and at the same time I need a break ... but I will miss them.
On reflection, life is like this.
It makes me realise that hasty decisions are are not good decisions. They are just 'in that moment'.
And therefore the better person is the one that reflects, realises and redistributes the emotions.
Do not be afraid to go back and apologise for a word or action made in the heat of the moment. And perhaps even greater, is when someone comes to you to apologise? Be gracious and humble. Think of the turmoil within their mind that they have been through to make that apology.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste .........
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