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An Land
24.6.2011
"To be truly challenging, a voyage 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 yachts at sea- “cruising,” it’s called. Voyaging belong to seamen and to the wanderers of the world, who cannot or will not fit in.If you are contempling 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 the South Seas, but can’t afford it.” What these men cannot 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 some form of 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 from the sheer idiocy of the charade.
The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust of 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 the purse or bankruptcy of life? "
Sterling Hayden
Wo also liegt die Antwort? In der Wahl. Und die Wahl ist: Bankrott des Geldbeutels oder Bankrott des Lebens.