Final Remarks
South Pacific Familyadventure 2008
Claes Brodin
Tue 25 Sep 2012 13:36
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More than five years have passed since we started
our tour towards the South Pacific. Tarita has either been under way,or dug down
in some hiding place being protected from the cycloneseason. Life onboard ,down
there ,is so different compared to "normal" ratrace life back home in Sweden.
Not that everything is allways better being down there,,just very different.
Most cruisers agree that while Blue Water cruising, you experience some of
your most fantastic moments in life,as well as some dreadful moments when you
ask yourself "what am I doing here? "
But life onboard is very near the real essence
of life being focused on reality , concrete problems, and with a very
different timeperspective where today is your mainfocus.
Back home we run in a system where money (like
never in history),is the measurement of allmost everything. In my own world
of medicine medical doctors who used to be individuals practising "The art of
medicine", are more and more becoming "Bricks in the Wall". Being here with
all memories creates a strong desire to be back down there, reminding me of
the film Apocalypse. "After my first tour it was worse.When I was here I wanted
to be there,and when I was there,all I could think of was getting back into the
djungle"(Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now).
The two happy girls from the atoll
of Palmerston may represent the happy
Polynesian islanders who are not yet "Another Brick in the
Wall"
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