The Final Countdown

I am now into the final count down.  It is my final weekend onboard and my relief joins the day after tomorrow.  Over the past few days I have been accused of wishing my life away as I have been counting down the days.  To some extent this is true; whatever we do we always seem to be wishing our lives away as we are constantly looking to the future.  We look ahead and say tomorrow, next week, next month I will be doing such and such.  Is this a bad thing, well I think it is and it isn’t.  There is nothing wrong with looking ahead and looking forward to things.  However if you look ahead and plan things that never happen, then it is bad as life really does get wasted. We do live in a wasteful society though and there are so many distractions around us that help us waste our lives away.

 

I think everyone has hopes and dreams and a few have ambition.  Few however realise all their dreams within a lifetime and many dreams just turn out to be pipe dreams.  This coming leave I am determined to grab the bull by it’s horns and try to make progress to realising some of my dreams.  I know I will only achieve a small amount of what I would like to achieve due to time constraints but if I focus I hope to achieve something this leave as many of my previous leaves have been wasted.

 

Well home Tuesday and then little one’s first birthday on Wednesday.  I really can’t believe that she is almost a year old, where has the time gone.  I do sometimes worry about what sort of world she will grow up in.  What sort of future will she have?  Energy costs are soaring, food costs are going to follow suit.  At present there is a baby boom which means that competition for jobs when she is older will be even greater and then there are all the other worries such as climate change and terrorism.  Maybe it is best not to think to hard about these things as one will only get depressed.  However I don’t believe we can ignore them, we need to prepare for them.

 

Anyway three days left and counting, I will soon be home and can turn my back on what has been a depressing and tedious trip.  The last five and a half months have gone by far too slowly, but hopefully my leave won’t speed by.