"Gordon" wrote in message
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"To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm
foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine
traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea...
cruising, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers
of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a
voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes
change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about. "I've always
wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it." What these men
can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline
of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the
wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone. What does a
man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter,
six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will
yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and
we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up
in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous
gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the
charade. The years thunder by, the dreams of youth grow dim where they lie
caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is
sealed. Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be:
bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?"

Sterling Hayden


Rest in peace. He was an amazing guy.

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