Today is July 10th, 2018: only 30 days left before traveling home, back to the life we have grown to love so much.
Every day now it gets more difficult to keep our focus on feeling anticipation rather than feeling impatience. Anticipation being the feeling of being excited about something that is going to happen, or making that something happen in the near future; and impatience being the feeling of wanting something to happen as soon as possible & being annoyed by having to wait for it (adapted form the definitions in the Cambridge Dictionary).
Life is all about seizing the right opportunities, but sometimes the wait for such opportunities seems eternal. The realist in us knows, that not everything is always available, nor do we have the money to accomplish everything we want all at once. So we wait and ride the waves as they present them to us. It has been a long ride already, trying to detach from a land life and transforming it into a life to be lived at sea. All the way doing what we have to do and waiting to find the right opportunities.
But boy, does that waiting suck! And at times the impatience gets the better of us, turning the wait for change into impatience for change, and thus throwing at us the negative consequences of increased disbelief and stress, lots of stress.
Disbelief has been linked to fear and insecurity, perhaps in our case to the fear that we will not be able to make the change, we want so much, a reality. That fear may kill our ideas and plans as well as kill the will to act. Not a good thing!
In combination with the experienced stress, this impatience for change carries the risk of leading to withdrawal, which forms our biggest horror scenario: not being able to manifest the change we want. As the waves roll by, it seems like the longer this ride continues; the tougher it gets to keep the focus on the eventual goal of living a free life at sea; the tougher it gets, to keep waiting for the change and not get too impatience for that change.
But no matter how long the trip was and still will be, with it's many detours, doldrums and dover cliffs, we constantly will have to remind ourselves NOT to say: "are we there yet?" and keep on enjoying all parts of the ride. After all, we truly have seen, experienced and accomplished some amazing things so far on this ride.
July 10th, 2018: 14:35 h. - 30 days, 1 hour and 40 minutes until the trip back to FARR-out starts ;-)
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