I finished my VHF course!!! yey. I have had couple of really wonderful days for no reason at all. I just finished watching a fairy tail – StarDust. I rented it from iTunes. It was just so refreshing. Such a feel good story. It reminded me of a time when I was a little boy watching some of Slovak and Czech fairy tails. It also made me forget about the daily life of harsh reality, betrayal and work to pay the rent. It made me forget about things that we just do. How we move through our life forgetting about the simplest – yet the most powerful brains function. Our imagination. I have been reading a lot about the brain – I really started to miss “The Discover” and the “Scientific American” magazines. I tried to read them often back home in USA. Here they cost $15 per issue. Too much so I have prepaid “The Discover”to get them delivered from US. It is a scientific magazine but generally aimed at general (not as smart?) audience. I have also bought the Scientific American as a gift to my friend for Christmas. I also love to listen to NPR – Science Friday podcast. Just to keep up with what is going on in the world of science. Wow – I really went off for no reason. My point is that there is so much written about how the brain works, memory, feelings, subconsciousness, laughter, fear, depression or happiness. Lot of our brain development is dependent on thing we remember, traumatic events we have experienced, our perceptions of reality etc. We can learn anything by simple repetition. Thats is essentially how we live, how we survived since pre-historic era but how we evolve, well I think that is only because of our imagination. How does brain comes up with something it has never seen, heard, smell or thought of before. Simple fairy tail has reminded me of how much I used to love reading, how often I would just wonder about dreaming, how colorful my dreams used to be. Then somehow we all settle down when we get older. We all start assimilating to the society rules to survive. We give up our hopes and dreams for we all tell ourselves it is better to let go of the foolishness and impractical expectations.
There was another good movie called “Into the wild” about a boy or a young man going through his existentialist’s crisis. He is running away from the society into the wilderness of Alaska. There were so many similarities of what I was going through when I was just about the same age. The main one was the attraction to Alaska. I have not been swallowed by that impulse partially because by that time I have already met Julia and was able to overcome some of the intensity of not being able to assimilate. I have grown since and have been able to channel those feelings into different areas. Sailing is that passion now. If I could I would keep on sailing – for that gives me time to sit back, take time to reevaluate. But then I have to pay the rent, I have to do this or do that. There was another great movie you all should see. It was called “What the BLEEP do we know”. Again, just thinking about all this brings up memories of all of these movies. Another example of beautiful complex-simplicity (ha ha if that is not an oxymoron than I dont know what is) of our brain. Compare similarities, make assumptions.
OK I am pulling out of this craziness. As I said I had wonderful couple of days and partially because I just love my ferry rides from city to home that and the fact I have been working only 3 days and sailing 5). On a beautiful day – just like past friday I sit on top, watch local sailing rum races and totally relax. It is a great way to get rid of that working stress. The sun is slowly coming down and there is so much to look at in the bay. Couple of the fisherman in a small boat, the city fading into the light as it is becoming smaller, beautiful green islands around and so much more. It is watching the colors change, the city is so lit up by the sun going down that it all looks as one of those really old sepia picture. Then there is a little boy running around with his sister. Laughing, smiling and playing. Its so beautiful to look at their faces. The innocence and future. Their parents, young couple holding hands and smiling at each other. Then there is a chopper flying only about 3 meters from the water. It is a photo chopper that is taking pictures of an amazing old sail boat coming into the port of Auckland. If I turn around I can still see huge cruise ship that is docked in the port. I dont know If this makes any sense. The big container ship is coming into the port with couple of tug boats pushing it from the side. When we get closer to Half Moon bay I notice windsurfers and kite-surfers doing their thing. Simply put there is so much more of the good visual stimula and thats from a simple ride home on a ferry. My senses are awaken and I feel alive. Of course it is a friday evening too. That does not hurt either. I do miss someone to share all this with though.
Well I think I went overboard with all of this but I am off to Auckland Boat Show tomorrow and thats pretty cool too. I am going to be putting some of my cell phone pictures here. Not much of quality here – just snapshots from my day.
Oh my oh my… and all this just from Stardust… wow… But I do have to agree, I loved that movie and you are right it has the feel of Czech and I guess of Slovak fairytales…
) I miss you my friend…. I wish you would leave all that behind and come back here… there is plenty of sailing around here too…. and Kamila needs and uncle for her lil one.
Cau Martinko, videla som posledne dva filmy, nie prvy na rozdiel od Moniky…boli super. Na trosku vytrhnutia z melancholie, ktorou je tvoj post nasiaknuty, odporucam irsky film od Martina McDonagh, In Bruges.
Krasne fotky, paci sa mi ta “Lighthouse01″ a “hello”.
No a nakoniec, nedovolim si nezabrdnut a opytat sa, preco sa nechces vratit?
Martin….great pictures my friend. Hope all is well.